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Tikkun (2011) 26 (3): 100–107.
Published: 01 August 2011
... reaffirms the political and social structure of the tribe, but also deepens the identity formation of the group. In this way, circumcision functions as a primary and potent entrainment for group bonding. At a more muted level, circumcision does more than restructure identity based on contemporary...
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Tikkun (2012) 27 (1): 11–61.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Dan McKanan Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 not for sale T he election of B arack O bama in 2008 marked the culmination of a twenty-year backlash against “identity politics.” Students and union members, environmentalists and anti-imperialists, and people of all races...
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Published: 01 January 2012
Bill Hunter ( shoreshotphotography.com ) Critics often blame identity-based organizing for the weakness of the Left, overlooking how it breathes life into social movements. Identity-based slogans—such as this one from a May 1, 2011, protest in Washington, D.C.—can pulse with power. More
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (4): 20–22.
Published: 01 November 2013
...) of all societies distorted by the ethos of global capitalism. So in this issue, recognizing that tensions around issues of race and class, or between identity politics and a more universalistic frame for progressive politics, have been growing in the past years, we’ve invited a variety of thinkers...
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (4): 23–27.
Published: 01 November 2013
...PAUL VON BLUM All of this is perfectly understandable in a society that has ignored and oppressed each of these groups for decades, even centuries. But this resistance to engaging with each other’s struggles is nevertheless insufficient. The great promise of identity politics is its ability...
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (4): 26–29.
Published: 01 November 2013
...ELI ZARETSKY Identity politics, by contrast, is concerned not with what we think but with who we are. We need identity politics : we need voices that speak for the pain of particular experiences and situations, and for the absences in pretended universals. But let us not mistake those voices...
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Tikkun (2016) 31 (4): 50–54.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., universities, and broader society, we have the responsibility to (re)member Black identities and the rich heritage of Black peoples from Africa and her diaspora, and to place our students’ learning against a transnational Black backdrop, wherever we might be. I am suggesting that we shift our engagements...
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Published: 01 August 2017
At an imagined college “identity” fair, Amy considers several Jewish identities. Amy Kurzweil More
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Published: 01 August 2017
Three poets’ different uses of identity remind us that what we see is impacted by the windows out of which we look. Hillel Smith More
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Tikkun (2018) 33 (1-2): 16–19.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Rabbi Michael Lerner Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 i first got introduced to identity politics growing up during and after the Holocaust. For large numbers of Jews at that time the murder of one out of every three Jews on the planet Earth who were alive in 1940 was a trauma...
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Tikkun (2018) 33 (1-2): 20–22.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Karen Brodkin Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 Donald trump and his cronies have ignited the most massive and broad-based resistance and democracy movement in my lifetime, maybe in American history. What’s the place of identity politics (for want of a better catch phrase...
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Tikkun (2018) 33 (1-2): 23–28.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Eric Ward Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 TIKKUN: How did identity politics become a central part of liberation struggles? The modern emergence of “identity politics” occurs within the liberation movements that arose in the wake of the 1960’s Civil Rights campaigns. Huge...
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Tikkun (2018) 33 (1-2): 63–65.
Published: 01 January 2018
... most sacred, intimate, truthful, and loving natures. None of us can avoid harming each other and falling short of what we know we could be. None of us. We often exhibit two responses to this truth that create deep tension, particularly in the world of identity politics. Fortunately...
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Tikkun (2018) 33 (4): 67–70.
Published: 01 November 2018
... will comprehend our very dust, / And re-create the best and the worst of us, as though in art.” If Pinsky chooses a historical instead of personal or political lens to view the theme of identity in culture, it must be acknowledged that this is a luxury he comes to by way of his own identity. Poets of color...
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (4): 47–49.
Published: 01 November 2013
... identity politics keeps groups from advocating for each other misses a key point: powerful interests keep oppression in place by systematically encouraging divisions among groups, often setting groups up to fight each other for limited resources. Cassandra Conlin Cassandra Conlin Divide...
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Published: 01 November 2013
White House/Pete Souza A diverse coalition of identity groups came together to elect Obama, but once in office, the president hewed closely to the expectations of Washington establishment insiders such as Timothy Geithner and Gene Sperling (pictured here in the Oval Office). More
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Published: 01 November 2013
Joe Lustri “Occupy Wall Street was not an example of identity politics,” Zaretsky writes. “Rather, it was the expression of good old-fashioned Marxist-derived leftism.” More
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Tikkun (2010) 25 (1): 81.
Published: 01 January 2010
... in Pakistan , Pinault David , Equinox Publishing , 2008 The Other Within-The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity , Yovel Yirmiyahu , Princeton University Press , 2009 The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther...
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Tikkun (2005) 20 (6): 74.
Published: 01 December 2005
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Tikkun (2006) 21 (1): 53.
Published: 01 January 2006