Long Live Identity Politics: A Word to the Complainers

D. Elisabeth Glassco
4 min readMay 9, 2019

Here we go again.

Like 2016, here come the think pieces on the evils of identity politics aka talking about difference (race, gender, sexuality) and complaints about politicians crafting policies based on identity rather than adopting broad- based economic strategies.

And then there are the White folks making the case for White identity politics (a.k.a. White grievance/White nationalism).

Newsflash: y’all ain’t fooling nobody. We know what you’re trying to do.

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D. Elisabeth Glassco
D. Elisabeth Glassco

Written by D. Elisabeth Glassco

A native of of the great state of Mississippi and proud resident of New Jersey. Lecturer and Doctoral candidate in Media, Race, Class, and Politics @Rutgers.

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