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	Identity politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Identity politics is the political activity of various social movements for self-determination.
		Identity politics has close parallels with concepts like white skin privilege and self-determination, both of which heavily rely on the core of identity politics to advance their thought.
		With the development of a political and social consciousness in the United States and Europe that overwhelmingly emphasizes individual liberty as opposed to the collective entitlements of large groups, radical leftists say that the overarching socioeconomic problems with capitalism tend to be ignored in identity politics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Identity_politics (1130 words)

	Identity Politics
		The scope of political movements that may be described as identity politics is broad: the examples used in the philosophical literature are predominantly of struggles within Western capitalist democracies, but indigenous rights movements worldwide, nationalist projects, or demands for regional self-determination use similar arguments.
		What is crucial about the “identity” of identity politics appears to be the experience of the subject, especially his or her experience of oppression and the possibility of a shared and more authentic alternative.
		Identity politics, for these critics, is both factionalizing and depoliticizing, drawing attention away from the ravages of late capitalism toward superstructural cultural accommodations that leave economic structures unchanged.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/fall2004/entries/identity-politics (7565 words)

	Universalism, Justice and Identity Politics: From Political Correctness to Constitutional Law by James Boyle
		Bloom's critiques are mainly directed towards the effects of particularism and identity politics on the curriculum of the school, the goal of the university and the personality of the student.
		This is the two-fold paradox of identity politics.
		Identity politics, too, is constructed in a precarious latticework between the particular and the universal.
	www.law.duke.edu /boylesite/identity.htm (9511 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Identity Politics
		Proponents of identity politics argue that those who do not share the identity and the life experiences that it brings to members of an oppressed group cannot understand what it means to live life as a person with that identity.
		Identity politics assumes that the shared identity and experiences of glbtq people is a rational basis for political action, notwithstanding the different (and sometimes competing) interests of individual members of the queer communities.
		Identity politics has been important in the development of inclusive queer movements, since it insists on the necessity of incorporating the perspectives of the diverse glbtq constituencies in order to serve the varied needs of a notably fragmented community.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/identity_politics.html (1059 words)

	ESR \| October 11, 2004 \| Individual rights vs. identity politics
		A fairly standard definition of the term is: "Identity politics is the politics of group-based movements claiming to represent the interests and identity of a particular group, rather than policy issues relating to all members of the community.
		Identity politics divides society into distinct political classes and declares them to be antagonistic to each other’s interests: fls against whites, women against men, gays against heterosexuals.
		Identity politics is a sharp departure from the traditionally American ideal that rights are universal, not particular.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1004/1004idpolitics.htm (966 words)

	FOXNews.com - Identity Politics Dismisses Shared Humanity - Blog \| Blogs \| Popular Blogs \| Video Blogs
		Identity politics is an approach to political analysis and action that views group identity as the foundation for this analysis and action.
		The politics of exclusion and group separation, identity politics began within feminism by claiming males could not be feminists because they did not share women's collective experience.
		Identity politics is an essential part of what defines current gender issues, race relations and the gay and lesbian movement.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,47097,00.html (1198 words)

	Maggie MacAulay
		Identity politics benefit individuals within a group by sharing a common experience of oppression.
		Identity politics have served as the basis for many successful social movements, including the civil rights movement, the women’s liberation movement, and more recently, the gay rights movement.
		Identity politics rely on and reinforce socially constructed identities through essentialism, suggesting that there is an innate difference between the minority and majority group.
	io.uwinnipeg.ca /~taylor/identitypolitics.htm (989 words)

	The Head Heeb: Identity politics scorecard
		Identity politics have been an increasingly prominent feature of Israeli political life for the past generation: the 1970s saw Likud's rise to power on Mizrahi resentments as well as the post-Land Day development of Arab parties, the 1980s brought the rise of Shas, and the 1990s the integration of a massive post-Soviet immigrant population.
		Identity politics featured prominently in the March 28 election in terms of combination between established groups, the political emergence of new ones, and some hints of those that might become political players in the future.
		The rise of pensioners' politics in the post-communist world has been ascribed to three factors: a rapidly aging population, stagnant or declining social insurance benefits, and a collapse of the system of entitlements that made it possible to survive on a meager allowance.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/031806.html (5348 words)

	Shame to Pride
		As social movements spread the ideological position that particular identities are not inherently deviant or bad, but are defined as such by society and therefore may be challenged, stigmatized individuals are likely to replace feelings of fear with feelings of anger.
		Additionally, social movement writings define the identity of an oppositional character whose actions constitute the problems of the oppressed, and whose identity is defined at least partly by those who are oppressed.
		Pride is a prerequisite to acceptance of the identity, and the threshold to its de-emotionalization.
	www.indiana.edu /~socpsy/papers/identityPolitics/pride.html (5375 words)

	k-punk: Dis-identity politics
		As for V for Vendetta's politics - apart from the subjective destitution scenes, they amount in large part to the familiar populist ideology which maintains that the world is controlled by a corrupt oligarchy that could be overthrown if only people knew about it.
		Evey's choice is between defending her (old) identity - which, naturally, also amounts to a defence of the ontological framework which conferred that identity upon her - and affirming the evacuation of all previous identifications.
		Identity politics seeks respect and recognition from the master class; dis-identity politics seeks the dissolution of the classifactory apparatus itself.
	k-punk.abstractdynamics.org /archives/007709.html (2474 words)

	Politics of identity
		AMARTYA SEN'S new book, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, rests on the seemingly simple proposition that ascribing "singular identities" to people (for example, calling someone "a Muslim" while overlooking other aspects of his individual makeup) leads to the "miniaturisation of human beings" and the "belittling of human identity".
		Sen's book is concerned not only with the multiplicity of our identities, but also with the way the illusion of a solitary identity, increasingly defined in terms only of religion, has been used to cultivate violence in the world, not least by Islamic terrorists.
		When other avenues of identity mobilisation are either restricted (in autocratic states) or difficult (in societies where political patterns are entrenched and admit few interlopers), ordinary people tend to fall back upon the one identity that seems basic to them.
	www.shashitharoor.com /articles/hindu/politicsidentity.php (589 words)

	Beyond Identity? Questioning the Politics of Pride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Identity politics are political movements based upon group identities (e.g.
		First, that identity politics reinforces opposing categories such as queer/straight which are the problem in the first place.
		Identity, on the other hand, is how an individual understands their relationship with the world.
	moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk /~heckert/MSc.html (3439 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Q&A: Identity card plans
		The new Identity and Passport Service will then carry out a "background check" on you to establish that you are who you say you are.
		Charles Clarke, who steered the measure through Parliament, said the final charges have yet to be worked out but those who opt out of ID cards will have to pay the same for a passport as those who accept one and their details will be entered into the database in the same way.
		Critics say identity cards interfere with civil liberties, are too expensive and will do little to tackle problems like terrorism.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3127696.stm (958 words)

	(Be)Coming out: lesbian identity and politics
		Fuss's treatment of 'identity as difference,' containing 'the specter of non-identity within it,' links lesbian identity and politics to philosophical issues of identity and difference (1989, 103).
		Butler's argument that sexual identity is better seen as socially constructed, 'neither fatally determined nor fully artificial and arbitrary' (1989, 147), lead us to view lesbianism not as an essence or a thing outside of time and place but as a critical space within social structures.
		Our politics, perhaps disappointingly, must consist of continued patient and impatient struggle with ourselves and with those within and without our 'communities' who seek to 'fix' us (in the many senses of that term).
	www.sil.org /~radneyr/humanities/politics/LesIdent.htm (833 words)

	- LEARNERS: IDENTITY POLITICS -
		Like other pit-falls of identity politics, gender-based explanations of institutional degeneracy are merely divisive.
		Racial bias and segregation are based on cultural norms perverted by identity politics: "I've been taught, since I was a kid, that they are all worthless scum.
		The trick would be: never again to support racist aggressors, whatever their identity position—even if it were the same as our own and thus very tempting.
	peaceworld.freeservers.com /092IDENTITYPOLITICS.htm (4748 words)

	Identity Politics & Class Struggle
		Queer theory, for example, begins with the premise that sexuality is a vital part of human existence, and that the way sexual identities are defined (and policed) has to do with social relations of power, the role of the state, public institutions, and social movements.
		identity politics is a nostalgia for the Old Left, back in the days before the 60s when everyone who joined checked their race and gender identities at the door and embraced a radical universalism that transcended skin color, ethnic affiliations, and sex.
		Identity politics, in other words, has always been central to working class movements, from minstrelsy on up.
	www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue22/kelley22.htm (5658 words)

	Between Worlds: Chinese Identity Politics
		The history of Chinese civilization is a long one, and succeeding dynasties have been largely successful in promoting the notion of a monolithic, shared identity among Chinese subjecs.
		But the political upheavals of the 20th Century have slowly begun to change these attitudes.
		When China can stop making equivalence between the notions of ethnic and political "Chineseness", it will be better able to move forward, not just in its relations with Taiwan, but with all other nations.
	brucechang.blogspot.com /2005/04/chinese-identity-politics.html (1107 words)

	The American Enterprise: More Identity Politics? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Public recognition can be an important political tool when identity conflict-management is the goal—think of Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda.
		But identity conflict-management is hardly a necessity in the U.S. And to those who point to racial relations, the real conflict isn’t about identity.
		But we’ve joined identity politics and civil rights so tightly in our minds that it’s hard to see one without the other.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.19034/article_detail.asp (588 words)

	Identity Politics, Free Speech, and the Future of worldwide Liberalism, 2: a follow-up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Identity politics necessarily means that you group as racially as any eugenist and regardless of the merits of that group’s reasoned arguments.
		Identity politics are classical tribalism, but in another word, illogical.
		Identity politics are founded on the shifty soil of racism.
	www.proteinwisdom.com /index.php/weblog/entry/19801 (9320 words)

	I've Got Conceptual Art In My Identity Politics Afterimage - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In sum, "identity politics" is shorthand for art produced after 1970 that foregrounds the connection of racial, class and sexual subjectivity to the institutions and processes of power: when we think of work informed by a politics of identity we typically think of passionate declaration of the personal or scathing socio-political critique.
		Implicitly or explicitly, "identity art" is informed by the body of the maker or the subject of its investigation.
		As a consequence, Piper's explorations of fl identity often involve reactions to white definitions of flness.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2479/is_3_28/ai_68660260 (696 words)

	Politics, Culture, & Identity : The Watson Institute for International Studies
		The Politics, Culture and Identity Program was formed in 1996 with the aim of bringing cultural and historical analysis to bear on transnational and international issues.
		Themes of particular interest include the politics of identity in borderlands, cultures of foreign aid, and new modes of global and transnational solidarity, hierarchy and protest.
		Kuchmagate and the Demise of Ukraine's 'Geopolitical Bluff'
	www.watsoninstitute.org /program_detail.cfm?id=3 (917 words)

	ifeminists.com > editorial > Individual Rights vs. Identity Politics
		Looking at just one election issue -- abortion -- there is no consensus among women who seem to be split equally into pro-choice and pro-life camps.
		The focus is on the "rights" of the specific group -- that is, those things the group claims to deserve and wishes to acquire by law.
		Nevertheless, it was the ideal of the Declaration of Independence -- "all men are created equal" -- toward which politics consistently moved.
	www.ifeminists.net /introduction/editorials/2004/1006.html (914 words)

	Bibliography of Identity Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Giroux, Henry A. ''National identity and the politics of multiculturalism''.
		Giroux, Henry A. ''Curriculum, multiculturalism, and the politics of identity''.
		''The politics of identity in late modern society''.
	www.sil.org /~radneyr/humanities/politics/biblio.htm (164 words)

	Identity Crisis Politics (washingtonpost.com)
		But their reflexive defense of conventional marriage shows one major official similarity: Both lead societies that are responding unevenly and uncertainly to the pressures of swirling cultural change and confusion.
		Religion is at the core of French culture, but not of its politics, which are traditionally and determinedly secular.
		Both the culture and the political system in France are under intense pressure from a rising clash of religious communities there, as Islamic immigrants reject cultural assimilation, anti-Arab racism gallops in public acceptance and French Jews document a sharp increase in anti-Semitic violence.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A56518-2004Jul16.html (868 words)

	INTERRACIAL VOICE - Identity Politics
		"The multiracial category would serve civic health by undermining the obsession with race and ethnicity that fuels identity politics.
		Such politics proceed on the assumption that individuals are defined by their membership in this or that racial or ethnic group, often a group that cultivates its sense of solidarity by nurturing its grievances.
		The multiracial category is opposed by many who have a stake in today's racial spoils system, and thus favor maintaining the categories that help Balkanize America."
	www.webcom.com /~intvoice/identity.html (87 words)

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