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Author Richmond, Michael, 1986- author.

Title Fractured : race, class, gender and the hatred of identity politics / Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley
Published London : Pluto Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 264 pages)
Contents Whiteness as historiography -- Qualities of testimony -- Black feminism and class composition -- Aliens at the border -- Storming the ideal -- Whiteness riots -- The mad and hungry dogs
Summary Identity politics has smeared political discourse for over a decade. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan that it will be the end of class politics. It has been used to dismiss movements such as Black Lives Matter and brought seemingly progressive people into the path of fascism. It has armed the march of the transphobes. In Fractured, the authors move away from the identity politics debate. Instead of crudely categorising race, gender and sexuality as 'identities', or forcing them under the heading of'diversity', they argue that the interconnectedness of these groupings has always been inseparable from the history of class struggle under British and American capitalism. Through an appraisal of pivotal historical moments in Britain and the US, and a sharp look at contemporary debates, the authors tame the frenzied culture war, offering a refreshing and reasoned way to understand how class struggle is formed and creating the possibilities for new forms of solidarity in an increasingly fractured world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-254) and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2022)
Subject Identity politics.
Culture conflict.
Social classes.
social classes.
Culture conflict
Identity politics
Social classes
Form Electronic book
Author Charnley, Alex, author.
ISBN 9780745346588
0745346588
9780745346601
074534660X