EAN: 9780745347851

ELITE CAPTURE - OLÚFÉMI O TÁIWÓ KARTONIERT (TB)

'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  identity politics is now frequently weaponised
as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests.    But the
trouble  Olúf¿¿mi O. Táíwò deftly argues  is not with identity politics itself. Through a
substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of
racial capitalism  Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of
its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture
-deployed by political  social and economic elites in the service of their own interests.   
Táíwò's crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond the
binary of 'class' vs. 'race'. By rejecting elitist identity politics in favour of a
constructive politics of radical solidarity  he advances the possibility of organising across
our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.

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