Kat Gawin 

Prof. Hollis Glaser

GWS 100-1300

Garza and Williams show a complex understanding of how politics are implemented in life. The power that controls. 

Intellectual examples and everyday situations are equally important for understanding Identity Politics. I feel that the movement – Identity Politics – is a part of something that has existed for a long time, but now we put a name to it. We will turn it around for an advantage to help people, not to take away from underrepresented individuals. 

Politics can narrow or take away people’s possibilities. Since power can make decisions about the life of an individual and a group, to be free and happy, people need to state their expectations, tell their stories and represent their lives. Women’s rights and gay rights must have social fairness and be protected. In “The Power of Identity Politics” by Garza, the ignorant white girl in the bar states that the political corrections went too far, and she doesn’t understand that identity is an integral part of politics. She only sees her perspective. She is privileged and pleads no guilt to the history white men made by controlling everything around them. It must be frustrating and infuriating for a black person to hear comments about history that is fake and unfair -like it’s normal. We read, “…identity politics is the radical notion that your experience and history shape your worldview and that those experiences will vary according to the power of a group or individuals in the economy, society or democracy.”