Sotomayor’s Identity Politics: 230 to 0
June 3, 2009 by Orlando
Filed under News and Opinion
(Updated)
On Wikipedia (as updated June 3, 2009), Sonia Sotomayor’s description is the epitome of idenity politics. She is described by her ethnicity or gender 230 times. She is described as “American” zero times. Here is the word count breakdown:
American: 0
Latino/Latina: 15
Hispanic : 9
Puerto Rico/Rican: 13
Gender (woman, female, she, her): 188*
This count speaks volumes in how she identifies herself and where her biases will most likely be.
*She/her is often used as a gender description (e.g. “She is the nominee”). If you omit she/her the numbers are still substantial.


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