Digital Archive:
Identity Politics in the 2016 Election and Its Aftermath
Accompanying Suzanna Danuta Walters’s Currents essay, “In Defense of Identity Politics“
Other Digital Archive Pages:
What Is Identity Politics? | Political Economy & Intersectionality | Poststructuralist & Queer | Teachable Signs Articles
Academic Articles
Susan J. Carroll and Suzanna Walters, “Ask a Feminist: A Conversation with Susan J. Carroll on Gender and Electoral Politics,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2016.
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Susan J. Carroll, “Reflections on Gender and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign: The Good, the Bad, and the Misogynic,” Politics and Gender 5, no. 1 (2009): 1–20.
Stephen C. Craig and Paulina S. Rippere, “He Said, She Said: The Impact of Candidate Gender in Negative Campaigns,” Politics & Gender 12, no. 2 (2016): 391–414.
Ronnee Schreiber, “Gender Roles, Motherhood, and Politics: Conservative Women’s Organizations Frame Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann,” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 37, no. 1 (2016): 1–23.
Nicholas Winter, “Masculine Republicans and Feminine Democrats: Gender and Americans’ Explicit and Implicit Images of the Political Parties,” Political Behavior 32, no. 4 (2010): 587–618.
Trump Syllabi, Public Books
Women's March on Washington Co-Chair Interviewed by Suzanna Danuta Walters. Transcript and further resources.
Online Articles
Linda Martín Alcoff, “Did Identity Politics Destroy Sanders’ Chance of Winning?,” The Indypendent, June 29, 2016.
Tom Ashbrook, “The Future — Or End — Of Identity Politics,” WBUR On Point (NPR, November 23, 2016).
Brian Beutler, “Trump Promised White Supremacy. Now He’s Delivering It,” New Republic, February 3, 2017.
Walter Benn Michaels, Charles W. Murray, Linda Hirschman, and Carla Murphy, "What Is the Left without Identity Politics?" The Nation, December 16, 2016.
Jamelle Bouie, “Keep Hope Alive,” Slate, November 27, 2016.
Justin C. Cohen, “The Milo Yiannopoulos Affair and the Hypocrisy of White Identity Politics,” Huffington Post, February 21, 2017.
Susan Cox, “Women’s Issues Aren’t Just ‘Identity Politics,’” Feminist Current, November 26, 2017.
Jill Filipovic, “Trump Won, but Feminism Survives. Here’s What We Must Do Next,” Quartz, January 11, 2017.
Jill Filipovic, “There’s No Economic Justice Without Abortion Rights,” Cosmopolitan, March 30, 2017.
Claude S. Fischer, “Explaining Trump,” Gender & Society Blog, January 26, 2017.
Hadley Freeman, “‘Don’t Play Identity Politics!’ The Primal Scream of the Straight White Male,” The Guardian, December 2, 2016.
Conor Friedersdorf, “Why Conservatives and Progressives Share an Interest in a Huge Trump Loss,” The Atlantic, August 5, 2016.
David Frum, “The Great Republican Revolt,” The Atlantic, 2016.
Michelle Garcia, Sunnivie Brydum, Tyler Tynes, and Derrick Clifton, “All Politics is Identity Politics: Reckoning with Racial Justice in the Trump Era,” Vox, February 9, 2017.
Michelle Goldberg, “Democratic Politics Have to be ‘Identity Politics,’” Slate, November 22, 2016.
Adam Gopnik, “The Democrats and the Seesaw of Identity Politics,” The New Yorker, December 2, 2016.
Brent Griffiths, “Sanders Slams Identity Politics as Democrats Figure out Their Future,” Politico, November 21, 2016.
Alex Griswold, “Bernie Sanders: Trump Won Because People are ‘Tired’ of ‘Politically Correct Rhetoric,’” Mediaite, December 13, 2016.
Katie Halper, “Bernie Sanders Nailed it on Identity Politics and Inequality, and the Media Completely Missed the Point,” Paste, December 7, 2016.
John Healy, “What a Leaked Email Reveals about Identity Politics in the Clinton Campaign,” LA Times, October 19, 2016.
Jeet Heer, “Identity Heft: Why the Politics of Race and Gender are Dominating the 2016 Election. And Why That’s Not a Bad Thing,” New Republic, November 18, 2015.
Astead Herndon, “Shifting Focus to White Voters Divides Democrats,” The Boston Globe, December 31, 2016.
Joshua Holland, “There Are No ‘Vagina Voters,’” Rolling Stone, July 11, 2016.
Kali Holloway, “Stop Asking Me to Empathize with the White Working Class,” AlterNet, November 11, 2016.
Chris Ingraham, “Two New Studies Find Racial Anxiety is the Biggest Driver of Support for Trump,” Washington Post, June 6, 2016.
Margaret Jacobsen, “White Women, You Need to Talk About Racism,” Bitch Media, November 14, 2016.
Tobias Kelly and Sharika Thiranagama, “Against Civility,” Public Books, February 1, 2017.
Amanda Kerri, “Identity Politics Cost Us the Election, You Say?,” The Advocate, December 6, 2016.
Eric D. Knowles and Linda R. Tropp, “Donald Trump and the Rise of White Identity in Politics,” The Conversation, October 20, 2016.
Sarah Leonard and Anne Snitow, “The Kids Are Alright: A Legendary Feminist on Feminism’s Future,” The Nation, October 18, 2016.
Eric Levitz, “What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About Identity Politics,” New York Magazine, December 1, 2016.
Pema Levy, “Hillary Clinton Hits Trump With New Ad on Race,” Mother Jones, August 26, 2016.
Mark Lilla, "The End of Identity Liberalism," New York Times, November 18, 2016.
Conor Lynch, “Neoliberalism’s Epic Fail: The Reaction to Hillary Clinton’s Loss Exposed the Impotent Elitism of Liberalism,” Salon, November 19, 2016.
Rhon Manigault-Bryant, “An Open Letter to White Liberal Feminists,” Black Perspectives, November 19, 2016.
Salim Muwakkil, “’Identity Politics’ Takes a Hit,” In These Times, January 2, 2017.
National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Sunday, "In Defense of 'Identity Politics'"
Vann R. Newkirk, “This Is Who We Are: The Election of Donald Trump to the Presidency Reveals the True Character of America,” The Atlantic, November 11, 2016.
Tina Nguyen, “The Great White Irony of Clinton’s Stunning Loss,” Vanity Fair, November 10, 2016.
George Packer, “Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt,” The New Yorker, October 31, 2016.
Maeve Reston, “What Clinton’s Loss Says about Women in Politics,” CNN, November 9, 2016.
Judy Rohrer, “Trump and the Narrative of White Male Victimhood: ‘It Hurts,’” The Feminist Wire, November 7, 2016.
Julia Serano, “Empathy Politics,” Medium, January 22, 2017.
s.e. smith, “To Call Trump an ‘Outsider’ is to Dodge the Real Point,” Bitch Media, November 9, 2016.
Marie Solis, “In 2017, I’ll Continue to Be a Feminist Killjoy,” Mic, January 2, 2017.
Rebecca Solnit, “From Lying to Leering: Rebecca Solnit on Donald Trump’s Fear of Women,” London Review of Books, January 19, 2017.
Rebecca Traister, “The Bernie Bros vs. the Hillarybots,” The Cut, November 6, 2015.
Rebecca Traister, “Hillary Clinton Didn’t Shatter the Glass Ceiling. This is What Broke Instead,” The Cut, November 12, 2016.
Rebecca Traister, “Blaming Clinton’s Base for Her Loss Is the Ultimate Insult,” The Cut, November 23, 2016.
Jessica Valenti, “Will Trump Cause Progressives to Forget about Women’s Rights?,” The Guardian, December 15, 2016.
Matthew Yglesias, “Democrats Neither Can nor Should Ditch ‘Identity Politics,’” Vox, November 23, 2016.
On the Women's Marches
Stephanie Coontz, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Angie Morelli, Arlie R. Hochschild, Kay S. Hymowitz, Ai-jen Poo, and Reshma Saujani, “Women and Their March on Washington,” New York Times, January 9, 2017.
Jenée Desmond-Harris, “To Understand the Women’s March on Washington, You Need to Understand Intersectional Feminism,” Vox, January 21, 2017.
Sady Doyle, “Don’t Call the Women’s March Messy. It’s a Movement” Elle, January 19, 2017.
Amanda Hess, “How a Fractious Women’s Movement Came to Lead the Left,” The New York Times, February 12, 2017.
Emilie Lawrence, “Women’s March 2017; Unity and Identity Politics,” Gender and Education Association, January 27, 2017.
Katha Pollitt, “The Women’s March Succeeded Because It Spoke to Women’s Outrage,” The Nation, January 23, 2017.
Traister, Rebecca. “The Future of the Left is Female,” The Cut, New York Magazine, January 23, 2017.
Dahlia Grossman-Heinze, “Follow Women of Color: Lessons Learned from the Women’s March on Washington,” Bitch, January 24, 2017.
Sam Riedel, “Body Politic: Marginalization at the Women’s March and Beyond,” Bitch Media, January 31, 2017.
Julie Wittes Schlack, “Before the Women’s March: The Privilege of Debating Privilege,” WBUR, January 19, 2017.
Conor Friedersdorf, "The Significance of Millions in the Street," The Atlantic, January 23, 2017.
Women's March Map of Global Marches and Crowd Estimate.
Courtesy of the Sister Marches Flickr.
David Brooks, “After the Women’s March,” The New York Times, January 24, 2017.
Ben Mathis-Lilley, “David Brooks’ Column About the Women’s Marches Should Be Dumped in Acid and Set on Fire,” Slate, January 24, 2017.
Emily Peck, “NYT’s David Brooks Dismisses the Women’s March as ‘Identity Politics,’” Huffington Post, January 24, 2017.
Books
John Green, Mark Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox, The Values Campaign? The Christian Right and the 2004 Elections (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004).
Donald R. Kinder and Cindy D. Kam, US Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Natalie Masuoka and Jane Junn, The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
Catherine Rymph, Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Ronnee Schreiber, Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Carol Swain, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).