Identity Politics in the United States (Cognella, 2025) is a complete online course that introduces students to how individuals construct ideas, belief systems, and personal politics based upon their ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, caste, social class, and more.

It features 10 course modules with lectures, weekly discussions, readings, viewing and listening assignments, study guides, and journal prompts. Students learn about the complex concepts of home, place, language, class, race, and privilege; the dilemma of reparations; the “White gaze;” Native American identity; Irish and Russian Jewish immigrants; Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights Movement; Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander immigration history; critical race theory; and current issues related to immigration.