Identity Politics
The term 'identity' is derived from the Latin root 'idem,' which includes sameness and continuity. Identity defines how and for what an individual, society, or any organized structure is. (Dalbay - Avcı, 2018) Identity is very important for a person and society. Identity politics combines the concepts of identity and politics and has a very important place in modern politics. Also, it's quite a contested term. Columnist Carlos Lozado supports this with the following sentence "a term so contested that even writing it down can be exhausting." (Atchison, 2021, p.404) As a definition, identity politics refers to organizing around the specific experience or perspective of a given group as well as organizing that has identity visibility as a goal. (Whittier, 2017) Identity politics began to be seen for the first time in the post-1945 period with the post-colonial theories that emerged from the collapse of European empires.