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Family Values with Melinda Cooper

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Identity Politics Aren't a Form of Political Economy

Theory: Identity politics is a way of organizing any kind of politics. Race, gender and sexuality are the forms in which wavewage differentials are organized. It's interesting to me that it's often from the left, from the academic and critical left, that you find this a arasure. We also need to theorize why there's this constant forgetting of the kind of gendered and racial dimensions of political economy.

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