How to Use identity politics in a Sentence

identity politics

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  • But then there’s still lots of railing about identity politics, and that’s just a kind of denial.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Yorker, 21 July 2019
  • Here Maxwell talks about her new book, the 2020 race, and the long history of identity politics.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 8 July 2020
  • It’s part of a broader national trend in which many facets of life are framed in terms of identity politics and the culture war.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 2 June 2022
  • His election may be seen as a race that rose above identity politics.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2022
  • This fluid sense of identity — and identity politics — is at the heart of many of the pieces in Hannaham’s book.
    — Mark Haskell Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The fundamental theme of my essay was that identity politics could be the death of art.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Richards would much rather talk about golf—or her beloved Yankees—than identity politics.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 28 June 2019
  • The answer, often, has been Vance’s own coarse brand of identity politics.
    — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • First the humanities, then the social sciences and now even the sciences have been forced to bend to identity politics.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2020
  • But this new brand of identity politics has tested the power of the preacher against extremist voices in the pews.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The party of identity politics is never going to pick you over her.
    — Marc Thiessen, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • More:Meghan McCain tried to weigh in on identity politics and fumbled.
    — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 1 July 2021
  • What remains is a narrow tribal story, which may serve as a sharp weapon in the battles of identity politics, but which comes with a high price.
    — Yuval Noah Harari, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The old Democratic machine gives way to the new Democrats, who are all about identity politics, herding votes by race and gender.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The only person who made this about identity politics is Joe Biden.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 30 Jan. 2022
  • That, for most viewers, will likely supersede all the identity politics in the world.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • So why does this letter go straight to identity politics?
    — Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • Despite reports to the contrary, identity politics isn’t dead — it’s been born again.
    — Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The performers in Ira Sachs’s Passages try living up to the new demands of identity politics.
    — Armond White, National Review, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But something kept pulling Hamby toward battles grounded less in identity politics and more in the day to day.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Parties of the nationalist right have learned from the left how to exploit identity politics.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • And his best bet to get that nod would come from Warren, for reasons that involve the inevitably crass calculus of identity politics.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 22 June 2019
  • And their choices have reflected the identity politics of their era.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Such identity politics pander to an electorate who supports their home team, possibly at the cost of the better team.
    — Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Try to dwell in the wildness of possibility, and less so in identity politics.
    — Anna Pulley, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
  • Cherry was a pioneer in the identity politics of sports.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019
  • On Thursday, Carlson blasted the claim as a tactic of identity politics used to win elections.
    — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Herein lies one of the problems with identity politics.
    — Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
  • King would shudder in dismay at the weaponization of identity politics.
    — Kendall Qualls, Star Tribune, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Biden is the first, but not the last, victim of this new aspect of identity politics that is remaking discussions around electability in ways that will reverberate well past 2024.
    — Jerel Ezell, Scientific American, 23 July 2024

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