Hana’s Reviews > Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics > Status Update

The people in powerful rooms, to whom others defer, may be elites relative to the larger group they represent, but disadvantaged relative to the other people in the rooms with them. Our sense of ourselves and the patterns of deference we tend to fit to our standpoint epistemological commitments often foregrounds the ways we are marginalised, rather than the ways we are not.