ABSTRACT
Much has been said about the 2042 demographic shift that will produce a “White minority” in the United States, an outcome presaged by the last five House elections, which have ushered in the most ethnically and racially diverse Congress in US history. While these changes have moved the nation toward its long-standing goal of broad-based representation, it has also sounded alarms for the White status quo. More positively, these changes have reduced the impact of essentialized identity, an outcome especially appropriate in a multiethnic democracy. This chapter valorizes a politics moving beyond simple representation and toward a coalitional politics based on intersectional identities. Examples of such coalitions shed light on a politics featuring contingent identities and entirely new ways of living and being with one another.
