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Identity Politics: A Zero-Sum Game

November 2010June 2019 Walter Benn Michaels blacks, class, disparity, Hispanic, inequality, racial, Walter Benn Michaels, white, Winter 2010

The current hard times have been harder on some people than on others, harder on the poor—obviously—than on the rich;

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Identity Politics: Part of a Reinvigorated Class Politics

November 2010November 2017 Alethia Jones African-American, Alethia Jones, Barack Obama, black, class, diversity, Gates, Harvard, identity politics, race, sexuality, social justice, stigma, white, Winter 2010

Identity politics has its share of shortcomings. But the problems that plague an anemic class politics won’t be solved by

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