Identity Politics Reconsidered Identity Politics Reconsidered …

… The contributors to Identity Politics Reconsidered address and debate the questions we
have posed to them regarding the epistemic status of identities, the possibility of objectivity, and …

… Predictably, there is no straightforward criterion that makes a political struggle into an example
of “identity politics.” Rather, the term signifies a loose collection of political projects, each …

… that beneath the normative political claims about identity politics lie competing theoretical
ways to understand the relationship between experience, culture, identity, politics, and power. …

… is time we reassess identity politics in the same light. One of the problems is that identity politics
is … Identity politics is blamed for a host of political ills and theoretical mistakes, from overly …

… , and because our traditional science has taught us that the psychological must be separated
from the political, we will need to reconsider a separation that sustains the privilege of …

… illusions about transgressive “identity politics,” insofar as … “identity politics” can be manipulated
by hegemonic forces, I will argue that a critical politics of identity can play a part in political …

… How can we understand the power and pathos of identity politics? … We do not aim here
to contribute to the ongoing debate on identity politics.2 We focus instead on identity as an …

… To put it simply, identity is difference. This is why I use the term “identity/difference politics”
rather than “identity politics” or “difference politics,” for it signals a relationship between these …

… Providing careful readings of such political … identity politics depend upon three basic
assumptions about the nature and the effects of identities: (1) people with strongly felt identities are …