Noah Berlatsky on Identity Politics and the Security State

The term “identity
politics” is typically used less as a designation than as a sneer:
disapproving shorthand for Balkanized multiculturalism. Arun
Kundnani’s new book The Muslims Are Coming! sees the
subject through a different lens. For Kundnani, as Noah Berlatsky’s
review explains, identity politics isn’t something the left does to
get goodies from the government. It’s something the government
does to justify and expand the power of the national security
state.

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