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• Title: Introduction (The Politics of Identity After Identity Politics)
• Author : Adrienne D. Davis
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 63 KB

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During the presidential election of 2008, policy commentators and cultural critics alike had their hands full. The primary race between Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin's subsequent entry as the vice presidential candidate transformed identity and political discourse in ways we are still trying to comprehend. The primary race caught the Democratic Party and its "big tent" rhetoric off guard as pollsters broke voter preferences for candidates Obama and Clinton down to ever-finer gradations of race, gender, class, and age. On the other side of the aisle, Republicans embraced feminist rhetoric in unprecedented numbers to defend Sarah Palin's gender performance, reproductive choices, and work/family balance. Meanwhile, efforts to secure gay marriage in California suggested that old presumed political alliances had given way to new religious and racial coalitions. In the twenty-one months since the election, identity politics has continued to morph. We now speculate about whether and how racism remains operative in a country led by an African-American president. Conservative political identity has manifest new forms in the birther and tea party movements. A stunning spate of sexual scandals involving socially conservative politicians, as well as Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination, has generated new debates over the appropriate role of sexual politics within national politics. Los Angeles, a city with a large number of Latino residents and a Latino mayor, is threatening to withhold its business from the state of Arizona because of the latter's newly adopted immigration policies. In short, the interplay of identity and politics has become more complex--and more fascinating. The Articles in this volume seek to shed some light on the politics of identity after this election in which identity politics dominated. To explore how 2008 and its aftermath have shifted both academic and political debates, I invited scholars from a variety of disciplines who embrace diverse methodologies--political theory; cultural studies; history; and law. These authors explore identity politics as a field of academic inquiry; a cultural discourse; a legal claim; a negotiation of institutions and power; and a predicate for political alliances. Collectively, the Articles both develop new frameworks and intervene in old ones for theorizing the politics of identity.

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