A group can move from oppressed to oppressor by changing its racial assignment
Evidence
This book looks at how one group of people became white. Put another way, it asks how the Catholic Irish, an oppressed race in Ireland, became part of an oppressing race in America. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 31
Categorization
- XREF: Direct comparison to the reader’s category-reclassification project: here ascent comes through joining the oppressor category rather than reclamation. — connects to: Irish ascension to whiteness resulted from strategic choice, not inevitability — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 35; Oppressed groups can adopt and police the racist ideas used against them — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 516; Oppressed groups internalize dominant categories and police their own members to gain acceptance — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 717 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Subordinated racial groups actively participate in creating and maintaining hierarchy
#corroborates(0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3583 - Oppressed groups can adopt and police the racist ideas used against them
#corroborates(0.88) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 516 - Oppressed groups internalize dominant categories and police their own members to gain acceptance
#corroborates(0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 717 - Racist ideologies both oppress subordinated groups and can be inverted into resistance
#expands(0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 638 - Racialization shifts with the political interests of those in power
#corroborates(0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 86 - Subordinate groups often favor their oppressors rather than showing ethnocentrism
#complicates(0.78) - Racializing a people can induce them to enact the very caricature assigned to them
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 618 - Adopting a derogatory label as one’s own identity can transform oppression.
#complicates(0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 694 - Oppressed groups self-police by competing to excel in assigned roles.
#expands(0.72) - Oppressed groups reclaim power by rearticulating their own stigmatized signifiers.
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