Identity politics (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Identity before identity politics, 2008: p. 4 of cover (in late 1960s identity politics emerged on political landscape, challenging prevailing ideas about social justice and bringing new attention to social identity)

Identity politics in the women's movement, c2001: p. 1 (proponents of identity politics believe it important to affiliate with those who confront similar experiences based on group characteristics) p. 23 (identity politics expresses principle that identity--individual or collective--should be central to practice of radical politics)

Dictionary of the social sciences, 2002 (identity politics: political activity organized on basis of cultural, racial, gender, ethnic, or other claims that prioritize particular group identity and experience; strongly associated with wave of political organization and contestation launched by black activists in 1960s and then continued by women's movement, other minority movements, gay pride movement, and most recently by conservative identity movements such as Christian Coalition)

Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy online, Jan. 28, 2009 (identity politics: wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Identity politics as mode of organizing connected to idea that some social groups are oppressed; that is, that one's identity as a woman or as a Native American, for example, makes one peculiarly vulnerable to cultural imperialism)

Asian America through the lens, 1998: p. 20 (since 1960s, identity politics has played key role in ethnic revival, community politics; recently, identity politics dominated by notion of difference structured in polarizing dichotomies)

Schmidt, R. Language policy and identity politics in the United States, 2000.

Oxford dictionary of English, 2005 (identity politics: tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics)

Wikipedia, Jan. 30, 2009 (Identity politics: political action to advance the interests of members of a group whose members perceive themselves to be oppressed by virtue of a shared and marginalized identity (such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and neurological wiring). The term has been used principally in United States politics since the 1970s)

Here are entered works on political activity organized to advance the interests of specific cultural, racial, gender, ethnic, or other groups.