The Ezra Klein Show

The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an associate professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University and the author of multiple books, including most recently How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective , which traces the origins of the term “identity politics” back to its very first use. “Since 1977,” she writes, “that term has been…