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identity politics  

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  • Identity politics is concerned with the making and maintenance of cultural rights for those persons making identity claims within society and culture. Acceptance of anti-essentialist arguments about identity within cultural studies leads to an understanding of identity politics as the forging of ‘new languages’ of identity with which to describe ourselves. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies; Identity Politics]

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