Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

From award-winning journalist and sociology professor Gary Younge, a nuanced analysis of identity politics and why they matter today.

We are more alike than we are unalike. But the way we are unalike matters. To be male in Saudi Arabia, Jewish in Israel or white in Europe confers certain powers and privileges that those with other identities do not have. In other words, identity can represent a material fact in itself.

As Gary Younge demonstrates in this classic book, now featuring a new intr...