A review by gregbrown
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

3.0

A brief but meandering book that examines identity politics—or at least, a few different phenomena that are usually grouped under that heading—and how they can be used as a way for the elite to reproduce existing power structures under a different guise.

It's tough to write a book like this because you want to keep it pretty generalizable, since the topic does affect pretty much every organization and struggle out there. But on the other hand, it means a lot of your advice ends up being so abstract that it's more "things to keep in mind" than an actual program of action. (And of course, if there were a silver bullet to solving capitalism/imperialism/etc we would have found it by now.)

Frankly, I think this would have been a book better written by an organizer or someone within a leftist organization, who could draw from examples and better explore the dynamics that usually take place there.