Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)

Great book, 5 stars for the actual book, it's thought provoking and essential. However, the copy I was sent has numerous printing errors and pages missing, so I think it's just a print on demand scam. Don't waste your money, buy this great book from a real bookshop.

Finally a history of identity politics, where it came from, its political purpose, and where we went wrong. The text ends with a powerful call to action and thus fulfills Marx's notion of immanent critique--the idea you have to present alternatives in addition to making a critique.

A great book I wish everyone in academia would read.

Interesting and original but too quick and based on examples whose relevance is unclear.

I was excited to read this book but it unfortunately basically fails at talking about elite capture in any real way. The book contains a lot of historical content from radical African anti-colonial movements, but the book is far too short to do any justice to actually talking about elite capture in the modern world.