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    Sonia Sotomayor's Intuitive Mysticism

    Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:15 PM | By Meghan O'Rourke
    Emily, Hanna: To me, Sotomayor's speech is most interesting for its embrace of a way of thinking about identity politics that seems almost mystical in nature: She stresses the experiential over the rational. In beginning the speech with descriptions of the Puerto Rican food she loves, she emphasizes the ways in which we're the products of hundreds of years of culture and genetics; she lavishes attention on a particular "Puerto Rican" way of loving and living to suggest how old and deep our identities are. This is identity politics, yes, but it's bound up with a sensual, visceral sense of the texture of life that I don't usually hear in the language of judges... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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