Check out my new paper. White men have always been highly influential in democracy. But they were invisible. Their identities and bodies were not observed. This enhanced their power. This is changing today. The white, male identity politics of the Trump and men's rights movement is an indicator that white men are losing their power. They appropriate feminist strategies to cling to their unearned privileges. Open-access.
Whiteness, masculinities and radical democracy: mapping four spaces of (dis)appearance
Radical democratic theory conceptualizes public visibility as empowering. In particular, feminist democratic theorists propose a politics of presence through identity politics, according to which i...




