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Write short note on Identity Politics.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Politics and Society

Identity politics is political mobilisation around a shared social identity, such as caste, religion, ethnicity, language, gender or sexuality, rather than around class interest or a universal programme. The members claim that they suffer injustice as members of that group. The term was popularised by the Black feminist Combahee River Collective Statement (1977), which argued…

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