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Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Words in: @Africasacountry, @TheAtlantic, @BostonReview, @DissentMag, etc

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    Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

    Thread: The piece argues for two claims: 1) The problem with identity politics is "elite capture", which is when well positioned or resourced people in a group hijack political projects. 2) It isn't unique to identity politics. 1/11https://bostonreview.net/race/olufemi-o-taiwo-identity-politics-and-elite-capture …

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      2. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        The Combahee River Collective is credited with coining the term "identity politics", which they did in 1974 in this manifesto. Founders had been in the Black Panthers, the National Black Feminist Organization, and various movements. 2/11 https://www.reed.edu/cres/assets/Combahee-River-Collective,-Black-Feminist-Statement,-How-We-Get-Free---Taylor.pdf …

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      3. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        Barbara Smith, one of the group's founders, later expressed frustration: "I am often disheartened, however, to see support for identity politics and intersectionality reduced to buzzwords", while explaining her support of Sanders' campaign. 3/11https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/10/identity-politics-bernie-sanders-endorsement …

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      4. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        For insight on the social dynamics here, I turned to E. Franklin Frazier, an important figure in Black Studies and the first Black president of the American Sociological Association. He wrote "Black Bourgeoisie", a study of elite capture, in 1955. 4/11https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/show/781494126_black_bourgeoisie …

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      5. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        According to Frazier, Black elites are an insecure "lumpenbourgeoisie", controlling a small bit of money and cultural life - just enough to handle their social insecurities (caused by comparison to white elites) but not enough to genuinely control historical events. 5/11

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      6. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        That was 1955. Now, we have Black congresspeople: @KeeangaYamahtta's book discusses the Congressional Black Caucus' co-sponsorship of Reagan's 1986 anti-drug laws, which ramped up the war on drugs in ways that hit Black working class folks hard. 6/11https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/778-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation …

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      7. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        Why does this happen? We can learn something from @add_hawk and game design: Design decisions structure the decisions players face. Similarly, lawmakers, real estate and media moguls, and (yes) influencers decide what trends exist for the rest of us. 7/11 https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosophical-review/article-abstract/128/4/423/140564/Games-and-the-Art-of-Agency?redirectedFrom=fulltext …

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      8. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        But this also explains why elite capture is no special problem of Black politics or any other sort of identity politics. I could have just as easily focused on universities, or *within* working-class organizations, or whatever (see the article for a clown car of examples) 8/11

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      9. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        If you ask me, the Combahee River Collective's manifesto is what an smart response to this problem looks like. Movements for racial justice sidelining of women's issues? Feminist movements silencing women of color and/or from the Global South? That's elite capture! 9/11

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      10. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        "Considered as a response to this kind of problem, Smith’s vision of identity politics...wasn’t an alternative to a political coalition but an enabling condition of it." The point is to bring back into view the aspects of justice that elites often choose to ignore. 11/11

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      11. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        And the point of doing *that* isn't to form a new moral pecking order, or to participate in "fractionalization". It's to build a political agenda compatible with their liberation, as Black women - and everyone else's as well. 11/11

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      12. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò‏ @OlufemiOTaiwo 7 May 2020

        PS I focused on Frazier and @TheBarbaraSmith in this thread, but benefited from loads of work in figuring out elite capture for this article: s/o @Johngithongo, @kamaumuiga, David Farber, Patrick @Gathara, Camilla Orjuela, @skeatings, @amandahess, @Eitanhersh, @JebSprague, others

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