Flitsaanbieding Elite Capture How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) – Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò

‘A thinker on fire’ – Robin D. G. Kelley Identity politics is everywhere, polarising discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference,…