Solidarity Politics for Millennials ― A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics

Most of the 84 million members of the Millennial Generation in the United States have far more politically tolerant attitudes on race, gender, and sexual orientation issues that their older counterparts. Yet despite growing political tolerance, inequality remains a persistent threat to our democracy. Solidarity Politics for Millennials argues that we face a twenty-first century Oppression Olympics: a political framework that encourages competition instead of solidarity among folks of all ages and backgrounds to turn us in the direction of liberty and justice for all. Instead of rehashing the same old problems, author Ange-Marie Hancock offers a solution—solidarity—and an approach—intersectionality—for change we can achieve.

Ange-Marie Hancock is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California, USA, and has taught and worked in politics with Millennials for fifteen years in locations all over the United States, including the University of North Carolina, University of San Francisco, Penn State University, and Yale University. She is a globally recognized scholar of the study of intersectionality—the study of the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality politics and their impact on public policy. First known as the author of the award-winning The Politics of Disgust and the Public Identity of the "Welfare Queen," (2004), Hancock also wrote the original proposal for the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). During the 2008 election she served as an international expert in American Politics for the US Department of State and continues to be a sought-after political expert in the media.