{"product_id":"elite-capture-how-the-powerful-took-over-identity-politics-and-everything-else-9781642596885","title":"Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Identity politics\" is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the trouble, Olúfẹ́mi 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.\u003cbr\u003eTáíwò's crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond a binary of \"class\" vs. \"race.\" By rejecting elitist identity politics in favor of a constructive politics of radical solidarity, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781642596885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168","brand":"Ol\u0026#250;f\u0026#7865;\u0026#769;mi O. T\u0026#225;\u0026#237;w\u0026#242;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41840029040821,"sku":"9781642596885","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a477159a-de6b-4bd4-8494-0d6b43153f7d.jpg?v=1646731241","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/elite-capture-how-the-powerful-took-over-identity-politics-and-everything-else-9781642596885","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}