Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
The Dig
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Identity Politics - A New Perspective
The term identity politics has strayed far from what the combahi river collective, the group that coined it, meant in 19 77. For combahi, the concept was a way to identify how capitalism, raceism, patriarchy and homophobia created a set of interlocking oppressions. The point of identifying how those systems operated together was not to create an itemized politics of rity, but rather to create a framework for solidarity. It's about how standpoint epistemology is instead put into practice as what femi tiwo calls deference Epistemology.
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