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Pop Culture’s Great Awokening The term she grabbed onto was one that had been around for a while, and had made its way from black culture to the New York Times. “Woke,” for Perry’s purposes, seemed to mean something along the lines of sensitive to the experiences of racial, cultural, sexual, and gender identities besides…
Crime Fiction’s New Favorite Private Eyes | Book Riot Should be titled “how identity politics was marketed into detective fiction”
If identity politics is a force for good, how does white nationalism fit in? | Kenan Malik Very good article, but too brief to capture seriousness of the issue.
Anxious Pedigree: From Fresh-Off-The-Boat to “Crazy Rich Asians” – Los Angeles Review of Books Only just saw the film (CRA) and ran across this from Anne Anlin Chen: “If the object of a stereotype acts out the stereotype, is it internalized self-hatred or is it subversive satire? We have been asking this unproductive question about…
Diagram of “Dividual identity” “The factory constituted individuals as a single body to the double advantage of the boss who surveyed each element within the mass and the unions who mobilized a mass resistance; but the corporation constantly presents the brashest rivalry as a healthy form of emulation, an excellent motivational force that opposes individuals…
Identity politics in a nutshell: nationalism and/or ethnocentricism. Substitute literature and culture for the engine and you get what half (or more) of my colleagues are doing with their PhDs.
Walter Benn Michaels: Against Diversity. New Left Review 52, July-August 2008. A bit dated but still relevant to all debates about neoliberalism and racial politics.