Provide a detailed definition of identity politics in your own words. Critics of identity politics argue that the practice of identity politics embodies the following two pitfalls.

Identity Politics

1.Provide a detailed definition of identity politics in your own words.

2.Critics of identity politics (usually those with a more conservative political belief system) argue that the practice of identity politics embodies the following two pitfalls.

1. ) First, according to them, identity politics promotes disunity among the American people.
2. ) And secondly, they argue that identity politics fails to recognize that there is a single, American identity that has been in place since the American Revolution (1770s). In your opinion, can it be validly argued that there is a single, universally applicable definition of American identity (or “Americanness”) that can be identified in the year 2023? If so, what is that definition? If not, why is a single definition of Americanness impossible to discover in the contemporary U.S.? Explain the reasoning