Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump - Softcover

Asad Haider

 
9781786637376: Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump

Synopsis

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle.

Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock, Asad Haider turns to the rich legacies of the black freedom struggle. Drawing on the words and deeds of black revolutionary theorists, he argues that identity politics is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts to the neutralization of its movements. It marks a retreat from the crucial passage of identity to solidarity, and from individual recognition to the collective struggle against an oppressive social structure. Weaving together autobiographical reflection, historical analysis, theoretical exegesis, and protest reportage, Mistaken Identity is a passionate call for a new practice of politics beyond colorblind chauvinism and 'the ideology of race.'

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About the Author

Asad Haider is a writer and activist in the San Francisco Bay Area, a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz and the co-founder of Viewpoint Magazine.

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9781839763953: Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology: On the Ideology of Race and Class

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ISBN 10:  1839763957 ISBN 13:  9781839763953
Publisher: Verso, 2022
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