Speccie reader Joseph has written to ask: What is ‘identity politics’? First, the history. The term ‘identity politics’ is recorded from 1973. In that year a book was published called 1984 Revisited, Prospects for American Politics. It was edited by Robert Paul Wolff, and contained an essay by Todd Gitlin which used the expression ‘identity politics’ for the first time in print.
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