{"id":33662,"date":"2013-09-15T23:36:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T23:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33662"},"modified":"2013-09-15T23:40:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T23:40:54","slug":"identity-politics-in-a-brand-new-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33662","title":{"rendered":"Identity Politics, in a Brand-New Form"},"content":{"rendered":"

Identity Politics, in a Brand-New Form<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2013-09-14<\/p>\n

Sam Roberts<\/a><\/strong>, Urban Affairs Correspondent<\/p>\n

ARGUABLY, New York\u2019s identity politics peaked in 1945. That year, William O\u2019Dwyer<\/a>, the Democratic Party machine\u2019s mayoral favorite, was Irish and from Brooklyn<\/a>. Lazarus Joseph<\/a>, the candidate for comptroller, was Jewish and from the Bronx<\/a>. Party leaders balanced their citywide ticket with a candidate for City Council president by plucking the name of Vincent R. Impellitteri<\/a>, an obscure legal secretary to a Manhattan<\/a> judge, from the index to the official city directory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe flipped through the Green Book for the longest Italian name we could find,\u201d Bert Stand, the secretary of Tammany Hall<\/a>, the venerable Democratic organization, explained at the time.<\/p>\n

Last week, after Bill de Blasio<\/a> finished first in the Democratic mayoral primary, students of New York politics were already pronouncing identity politics dead. After all, half the black voters abandoned the black candidate, William C. Thompson Jr.<\/a>, to back Mr. de Blasio (he and Mr. Thompson each got 42 percent among blacks, according to an Edison Research survey of voters leaving the polls). Ideology trumped race as even the Rev. Al Sharpton<\/a>, more impressed with Mr. de Blasio\u2019s policy agenda, remained publicly neutral instead of reflexively endorsing the black candidate. Mr. Thompson carried Italian and Irish Catholic districts in Staten Island<\/a> and Breezy Point, Queens<\/a>, which, in the past, have not routinely embraced black candidates, as well as several Orthodox Jewish and Russian enclaves…<\/p>\n

…This year, said John H. Mollenkopf<\/a>, director of the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York<\/a> and a neighbor of Mr. de Blasio, \u201cthe really big story is that black central Brooklyn, the single largest contiguous settlement of black people anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, did not back an African-American who climbed up the rungs of regular Democratic politics in the borough, but chose instead a younger white leader in a biracial family who is a former organizer and much more Obamaesque.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire news analysis here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Identity Politics, in a Brand-New Form The New York Times 2013-09-14 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent ARGUABLY, New York\u2019s identity politics peaked in 1945. That year, William O\u2019Dwyer, the Democratic Party machine\u2019s mayoral favorite, was Irish and from Brooklyn. Lazarus Joseph, the candidate for comptroller, was Jewish and from the Bronx. Party leaders balanced their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[15381,2711,596,2640,2702,2327,15693],"class_list":["post-33662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-times","tag-sam-roberts","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-william-c-thompson-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}