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The Art Angle Critics Say ‘Identity Politics’ Ruined Art. Here’s A Better Argument Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on how political culture goes wrong—and how to put it right.
Now they are bastions of political correctness, “intersectionality” and identity politics. Something similar can be said of art museums.
IDENTITY CRISIS. When Dean Kissick let off some steam in Harper's Magazine earlier this year, arguing that identity politics has destroyed contemporary art, many stood up to disagree with him.
Art In the lobby of a D.C. government building, art and identity politics D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities hosts ‘Re/envisioning,’ a six-artist showcase that’s heavy on critical theory ...
Wikimedia Commons In the mid-1970s, a group of black feminist scholars and activists began meeting in Boston to form an organization that would address the political concerns of black women, which ...
Identity politics always ends up being an appeal to a kind of group loyalty. “Real” blacks or women or Jews or gays believe X, and if you don’t believe X, you’re some kind of traitor to ...
Yascha Mounk’s new book “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time” arrives at a crucial juncture for American liberalism.