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Elite Capture How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee Riv...

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The Ezra Klein Show

He highlighted Elite Capture as an ambitious work that blends class analysis with race politics, noting its eclectic detours into philosophy and Black feminist history.

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The second book is Olfmi O. Tw's Elite Capture, which is this amazing book. It started as an essay in Boston Review, and it really argues for a constructive politics by bringing an almost radically st...

— Episode: Now All Biden Has to Do Is Build It

Episode: Now All Biden Has to Do Is Build It

He highlighted Elite Capture as an ambitious work that blends class analysis with race politics, noting its eclectic detours into philosophy and Black feminist history.

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The second book is Olfmi O. Tw's Elite Capture, which is this amazing book. It started as an essay in Boston Review, and it really argues for a constructive politics by bringing an almost radically strong class lens to race politics. It was such a pleasure to read; it includes long detours into the philosophy of games and the history of the Black feminist Combahee River Collective.

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