Identity Politics
1.Provide a detailed definition of identity politics in your own words.
2.Critics of identity politics (usually those with a more conservative political belief system) argue that the practice of identity politics embodies the following two pitfalls.
1) First, according to them, identity politics promotes disunity among the American people.
2) And secondly, they argue that identity politics fails to recognize that there is a single, American identity that has been in place since the American Revolution (1770s).
In your opinion, can it be validly argued that there is a single, universally applicable definition of American identity (or “Americanness”) that can be identified in the year 2023?
If so, what is that definition? If not, why is a single definition of Americanness impossible to discover in the contemporary U.S.? explain the reasoning