Identity politics did not begin with the Obama era. But the current political climate, where it has become a central part of U.S. politics is certainly in part a response to the Obama presidency.

The backlash comes with its own popular history of identity politics’ origins. A recent version of this popular history is articulated by Yascha Mounk in his new book, The Identity Trap.In a ...

Americans Say Their Politics Don’t Define Them. But It’s Complicated. ... “Identity politics,” even without explicitly mentioning politics at all, can apply to either group.

You want to define identity politics in as neutral a way as possible, so that you’re not seen to be building your criticisms of it into the definition.

For some, the Democratic Party’s insistence on focusing on identity politics—or at least, a certain definition of identity politics—is what cost them the election.

How identity has come to define American politics. Eugene Scott. Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of Election Day 2008, the day voters elected Barack Obama the first black American to be president.

This is the argument Duke political scientist Ashley Jardina makes in her book White Identity Politics. Drawing on a decade of data from American National Election Studies surveys, Jardina claims ...