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标题：Political Identity as Identity Politics
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作者：Richard Thompson Ford
期刊名称：Unbound : Harvard Journal of the Legal Left
印刷版ISSN：1932-3808
出版年度：2005
卷号：2005
出版社：Harvard Law School
摘要：Identity politics is nothing new. In a sense—apologies to the late Tip O’Neill—all politics are identities; all identities, political. Of course, when we use the phrase “identity politics” we mean something more specific. We don’t mean to evoke people who identify as Democrats, Republicans, Leftists, Conservatives, Libertarians, even when these identifications are an all-consuming obsession as often enough they are. Identity politics suggests a political orientation built around a (pre-existing) social identity. This seems to imply that the identity comes before the politics: we begin with identities whose shape and character are, or at least could be, pre-political and then we opt to get political about them.