Beyond Identity Politics: Emerging Social Justice Movements in Communities of Color - Softcover

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A long-awaited roadmap to the grassroots social justice movements of the 1990s and beyond. The strikingly diverse array of multiracial struggles presented here succeed, in various ways, by moving by simplistic identity politics.In an era when the right-wing seems to be winning all battles, Beyond Identity Politics presents a critical inside look at progressive victories.

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Must identity politics divert attention from challenging the system into "middle-class campaigns for affirmation, assimilation, and a piece of the pie?" These essays, based on 1993^-95 articles from the Center for Third World Organizing's publication Third Force, sketch encouraging alternatives to waging such "middle-class campaigns." In workplaces, classrooms, university campuses, and neighborhoods; in Providence, Los Angeles, New York, and elsewhere; on issues of race, ethnicity, personal and community safety, sexuality, wages, police accountability, and environmental justice, the people who populate these essays are building groups and coalitions that recognize that justice is a multicultural issue. A useful field report on victories that deserve more attention. Mary Carroll

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Beyond Identity Politics is one of the published studies to focus on modern issues affecting the 1990s into the future, covering multiracial struggles within and surrounding communities of color. Social justice movements are documented in articles which discuss everything from building ethnic and class solidarity to fighting for immigrant rights. -- Midwest Book Review

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ISBN 10:  0896085341 ISBN 13:  9780896085343
Publisher: South End Pr, 1999
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