Not Black and White, but Black and Red

Anti-identity identity politics and #AllLivesMatter

Bibliographic Data

ID6256503
AuthorsJoshua Paul (0000-0003-3669-1168)
Year2019
Volume19
Issue1
Pages3-19
Publication date2019-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnicities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468796818791661
OpenAlexW2885417054
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited36

This article critically examines #AllLivesMatter, which emerged as a rebuttal to #BlackLivesMatter, arguing, in spite of its universalist pretentions, that it represents a cloaked identitarian politics which through a hegemonic narrative (re)presents itself as a radically inclusionary counter-narrative. I argue All Lives Matter exemplifies an anti-identity identity politics by invoking rhetoric in opposition to racial identities while smuggling in a somewhat elastic ‘postracial’ neoliberal subject as the foundational identity around which this new mobilisation is organised. The article outlines a definition for anti-identity identity politics and uses this as a lens for analysing All Lives Matter in order to interrogate this keyword

Aesthetics · Hegemony · Identity (music · Identity formation · Identity politics · Narrative · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Rebuttal · Rhetoric · Self-concept · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Philosophy

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