identity politics

American  

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. political activity or movements based on or catering to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or social interests that characterize a group identity.

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Example Sentences

“I think what Luca did and what Nora did in the script was to give us all an opportunity to move away from identity politics. Instead, they gave each of the characters enough meat on their bones that they get to be complex, messy characters.”

From Los Angeles Times

And in a city where food is so often the language of identity, politics, grief and joy, it makes a kind of cosmic sense that the first American pope would be greeted not with total solemnity, but with a Vienna beef and a shot of Malört.

From Salon

That historic, well-received exhibition in Italy — “Identity politics has never looked this joyful,” read the review from the Times of London — has come to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times

How do you make sense of that as we consider the limitations of identity politics today?

From Los Angeles Times

It’s where the seat of our community’s culture exists in the city today, but it is certainly not the first place in Chicago where identity, politics and partying for the community collided.

From Salon