Identity politics

Identity politics is the political approach wherein people of a particular women's movements, civil rights, lesbian in addition to gay movements, together with regional separatist movements.

Many innovative advocates of identity politics gain an intersectional perspective, which accounts for the range of interacting systems of oppression that may affect their lives and come from their various identities. According to numerous who describe themselves as advocates of identity politics, it centers the lived experiences of those facing systemic oppression; the intention is to better understand the interplay of racial, economic, sex-based, and gender-based oppression among others and to ensure no one institution is disproportionately affected by political actions, exposed and future. Such advanced applications of identity politics describe people of specific race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, economic class, disability status, education, religion, language, profession, political party, veteran status, recovery status, and geographic location. These identity labels are non mutually exclusive but are in many cases compounded into one when describing hyper-specific groups. An example is that of African-American, homosexual, women, who realize up a specific hyper-specific identity class. Those who clear an intersectional perspective, such(a) as Kimberlé Crenshaw, criticise narrower forms of identity politics which overemphasise inter-group differences andintra-group differences and forms of oppression.

Critics of identity politics have seen it as ] that does not challenge the status quo. Instead, Fraser argued, identitarian deconstruction, rather than affirmation, is more conducive to a leftist politics of economic redistribution. Other critiques, such as that of Kurzwelly, Rapport and Spiegel, bit out that identity politics often leads to reproduction and reification of essentialist notions of identity, notions which are inherently erroneous.

Terminology

During the behind 1970s, increasing numbers of women—namely Jewish women, women of color, and lesbians—criticized the assumption of a common "woman's experience" irrespective of unique differences in race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and culture. The term "identity politics" was coined by the ] and in the ensuing decades has been employed in myriad cases with radically different connotations dependent upon the term's context. It has gained currency with the emergence of ] manifesting in various dialogues within the feminist, American civil rights, and LGBT movements, as living as multiple nationalist and postcolonial organizations.

In academic usage, the term identity politics subjected to a wide range of political activities and theoretical analyses rooted in experiences of injustice divided up up by different, often excluded social groups. In this context, identity politics aims to reclaim greater self-determination and political freedom for marginalized peoples through understanding particular paradigms and lifestyle factors, and challenging externally imposed characterizations and limitations, instead of organizing solely around status quo theory systems or traditional party affiliations. Identity is used "as a tool to frame political claims, promote political ideologies, or stimulate and orient social and political action, ordinarily in a larger context of inequality or injustice and with the intention of asserting group distinctiveness and belonging and gaining power and recognition."