The Politics of Identity after Identity Politics
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During the presidential election of 2008, policy commentators and cultural critics alike had their hands full. The primary race between Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin’s subsequent entry as the vice presidential candidate transformed identity and political discourse in ways we are still trying to comprehend. The primary race caught the Democratic Party and its ―big tent‖ rhetoric off guard as pollsters broke voter preferences for candidates Obama and Clinton down to ever-finer gradations of race, gender, class, and age. On the other side of the aisle, Republicans embraced feminist rhetoric in unprecedented numbers to defend Sarah Palin’s gender performance, reproductive choices, and work/family balance. Meanwhile, efforts to secure gay marriage in California suggested that old presumed political alliances had given way to new religious and racial coalitions. In the twenty-one months since the election, identity politics has continued to morph. We now speculate about whether and how racism remains operative in a country led by an African-American president. Conservative political identity has manifest new forms in the birther and tea party
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