TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The identity trap : a story of ideas and pover in our time
A1  - Mounk, Yascha, 1982- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - New York, NY
PB  - Penguin Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5682261
AB  - "One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America-and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals"
AB  - One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America--and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals. For much of history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity to resist injustice. But over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minority groups has transformed into a counterproductive obsession with group identity in all its forms. A new ideology aiming to place each person's matrix of identities at the center of social, cultural, and political life has quickly become highly influential.
AB  - It stifles discourse, vilifies mutual influence as cultural appropriation, denies that members of different groups can truly understand one another, and insists that the way governments treat their citizens should depend on the color of their skin. This, Yascha Mounk argues, is the identity trap. Though those who battle for these ideas are full of good intentions, they will ultimately make it harder to achieve progress toward the genuine equality we desperately need. Mounk has built his acclaimed scholarly career on being one of the first to warn of the risks right-wing populists pose to American democracy. But, he shows, those on the left and center who are stuck in the identity trap are now inadvertent allies to the MAGA movement.
AB  - In The Identity Trap, Mounk provides the most ambitious and comprehensive account to date of the origins, consequences, and limitations of so-called "wokeness." He is the first to show how postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory forged the "identity synthesis" that conquered many college campuses by 2010. He lays out how a relatively marginal set of ideas came to gain tremendous influence in business, media, and government by 2020.
AB  - One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America--and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals. For much of history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity to resist injustice. But over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minority groups has transformed into a counterproductive obsession with group identity in all its forms. A new ideology aiming to place each person's matrix of identities at the center of social, cultural, and political life has quickly become highly influential.It stifles discourse, vilifies mutual influence as cultural appropriation, denies that members of different groups can truly understand one another, and insists that the way governments treat their citizens should depend on the color of their skin. This, Yascha Mounk argues, is the identity trap. Though those who battle for these ideas are full of good intentions, they will ultimately make it harder to achieve progress toward the genuine equality we desperately need. Mounk has built his acclaimed scholarly career on being one of the first to warn of the risks right-wing populists pose to American democracy. But, he shows, those on the left and center who are stuck in the identity trap are now inadvertent allies to the MAGA movement.In The Identity Trap, Mounk provides the most ambitious and comprehensive account to date of the origins, consequences, and limitations of so-called "wokeness." He is the first to show how postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory forged the "identity synthesis" that conquered many college campuses by 2010. He lays out how a relatively marginal set of ideas came to gain tremendous influence in business, media, and government by 2020.
SN  - 978-0-241-63829-3 kovakantinen
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept)
KW  - Identity politics.
KW  - Minorities : Civil rights.
KW  - Minorities : Social conditions.
KW  - identiteetti
KW  - identiteettipolitiikka
KW  - vähemmistöt
KW  - etniset ryhmät
KW  - kulttuurinen omiminen
KW  - etninen identiteetti
KW  - sosiaalinen oikeudenmukaisuus
KW  - ihmisoikeudet
KW  - postkolonialismi
KW  - demokratia
KW  - rotusyrjintä
KW  - tasa-arvo
KW  - rasismi
KW  - etniset suhteet
KW  - etninen syrjintä
KW  - historia
KW  - postmodernismi
KW  - yhteiskuntakehitys
KW  - yhteiskuntarakenne
KW  - kulttuuri-identiteetti
KW  - identitet (självbild)
KW  - identitetspolitik
KW  - minoriteter
KW  - etniska grupper
KW  - kulturell appropriering
KW  - etnisk identitet
KW  - social rättvisa
KW  - mänskliga rättigheter
KW  - postkolonialism
KW  - demokrati
KW  - rasdiskriminering
KW  - jämställdhet
KW  - rasism
KW  - etniska relationer
KW  - etnisk diskriminering
KW  - postmodernism
KW  - samhällsutveckling
KW  - samhällsstruktur (social struktur)
KW  - kulturell identitet
KW  - Yhdysvallat
KW  - Förenta staterna
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