Kwame Anthony Appiah: Rethinking Identity
The Good Fight
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Strategic Essentialism
There's also a most political element of tesrihtso i think one sao es i agree with us that actually kno point. For i wonder when strategic essentialism stops being strategic and becomes essentialist full out. And this is an argument against segregating en at the age of eight or nine by anything, including, of course, class. We have identities as citizens we need to be able to mobilize those places in a way that transcends all time - but sometimes that doesn't always happen. So yes, i worry very much for this reason, there's a kind of cross cutting social capital, a cross-cutting identity which is absolutely crucial in life.
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