"'Identity Politics' Is the Ideology"

"For Fraser this tendency became increasingly explicit in the form of corporate feminism, embodied by Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg, and so on. As she put it in a 2015 interview with the New York Times, 'The mainstream feminism of our time has adopted an approach that cannot achieve justice even for women, let alone for anyone else. The trouble is, this feminism is focused on encouraging educated middle-class women to "lean in" and "crack the glass ceiling"—in other words, to climb the corporate ladder. By definition, then, its beneficiaries can only be women of the professional-managerial class.'"

In a 2019 n+1 article, Gabriel Winant discusses the evolution of the term "professional-managerial class."

"The Point of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 Was Not to Change People's Attitudes, It Was to Change Their Public Behavior"

"Combating racism becomes a convenient alternative to attacking inequality and inequality, even those inequalities that appear or the manifest themselves as racial disparities. Because the struggle against racism is exactly parallel to the struggle against terrorism… It can go on forever, because the enemy is an abstraction that you can define however you want to define it, at the moment that you wanted to find it."

Matt Taibbi at Substack interviews Adolph Reed.

"This Truncated Notion of Social Justice"

"Inequality is about the question of who gets what. But this question can be asked in two very different ways.
"One way is to ask what rewards accrue to people in different positions. How much, for example, are CEOs paid in relation to the average employee? What share of total wealth is held by the top 1%? What fraction of workers make less than $15 per hour?
"The other way is to ask what categories of people occupy which positions. What fraction, for example, of CEOs, the wealthiest 1% or low-wage workers are Black or Latino? 
"These questions—about unequal rewards between positions and disparate representation within positions—are not mutually exclusive. Both are important. Increasing concern over growing income and wealth inequality, especially since the financial crisis of 2008, has focused attention on the first question. Increasing concern over disparate representation in positions at both ends of the social and economic scale has focused attention on the second."
"The Reeds' critique of race reductionism is that it concentrates overwhelmingly on the second question at the expense of the first."

Rogers Brubaker at Persuasion discusses Adolph and Touré F. Reed's concept of "race reductionism."