The identity trap a story of ideas and power in our time
"One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America--and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals. For much of history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual...
| Main Author: | Mounk, Yascha, 1982- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction:
- The lure and the trap
- gPart I.
- The origins of the identity synthesis.
- Postwar Paris and the trial of truth ;
- The end of empire and the embrace of "strategic essentialism" ;
- The rejection of the civil rights movement and the rise of critical race theory ;
- The identity synthesis
- Part II.
- The victory of the identity synthesis.
- The identity synthesis goes mainstream ;
- The short march through the institutions ;
- Dissent discouraged
- Part III.
- The flaws of the identity synthesis.
- How to understand each other ;
- The joys of mutual influence ;
- Speak freely ;
- The case for integration ;
- The path to equality ;
- On structural racism, gender, and meritocracy
- Part IV.
- In defense of universalism.
- A response to the identity synthesis ;
- A brief case for the liberal alternative
- Conclusion:
- How to escape the identity trap
- Appendix:
- Why the identity synthesis isn't Marxist.