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Tikkun (2018) 33 (4): 67–70.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., and xenophobia has grown in response. It is difficult to look at the events of recent months and not conclude that we live in a culture defined by conflict. One of the most urgent conflicts we face today as a society is between individuals attempting to inhabit a unique sense of their own identity...
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Tikkun (2011) 26 (3): 100–107.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... By enculturating all group members to the necessity, normalcy, and moral superiority of circumcision, circumcising children not only 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...
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (4): 20–22.
Published: 01 November 2013
... to vindicate a dramatic turn by the Left in the past forty years toward a primary focus on identity politics, particularly highlighting the Left’s efforts to counter certain forms of oppression faced by women, African Americans, LGBTQ people, Latinos, Asian Americans, immigrants, and people with disabilities...
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (4): 23–27.
Published: 01 November 2013
...PAUL VON BLUM Conservative critics often use “multiculturalism” as a synonym for “identity politics” in their line of attack. These conservative critics have maintained that a multicultural vision, especially in higher education, has led to an extreme fragmentation in society. They claim...
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Tikkun (2012) 27 (1): 11–61.
Published: 01 January 2012
... the 1970s, the feminist movement flowered as the most vital embodiment of identity politics in the United States. As some women entered the halls of power, others built new centers of radical strength, ranging from rape crisis centers and lesbian communes to women’s studies departments and the National...
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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): 26–29.
Published: 01 November 2013
...ELI ZARETSKY Copyright © Tikkun magazine 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...
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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 (2013) 28 (4): 47–49.
Published: 01 November 2013
...CHERIE R. BROWN Individualism undermines any political analysis that takes class issues into account. In the United States, the value placed on safeguarding individual rights often overshadows the positive contributions that identity politics can make. The recent debate on gun control following...
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Tikkun (2008) 23 (6): 18–22.
Published: 01 December 2008
... Liberal Identity by Peter Dunlap ith an Obama presidency, liberals like me can breathe a sigh of relief, right? Well, yes, but maybe...
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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
...Simon Mont We often exhibit two responses to this truth that create deep tension, particularly in the world of identity politics. Fortunately, there is a third choice that presents an alternative path. The first response is to tune into a dimension of reality that does not carry the message...
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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 (2016) 31 (4): 50–54.
Published: 01 November 2016
... counter- stories of the brilliance and beauty of Black life. (Re)membering our identities is like weaving kente, the magnificently beautiful cloth of Ghana. Kente is a useful metaphor for (re)membering and weaving identity together again. The processes of (re)membering identity are like the warp of kente...
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Tikkun (2001) 16 (1): 75–76.
Published: 01 January 2001