All cultures are heterogeneous mixtures, making purity-versus-hybridity a false dichotomy

Evidence

Heterogeneities lie beneath all claims to purity, order, refinement, and restriction, not just as their negation but even as their prompt. (I obviously have ethnoracial heterogeneities principally in mind here, but the argument reaches more broadly across cultural articulation.) To engage heterogeneities is to shift attention from populations – their statistics, their state management, their constrained formation and social control. The emphasis on heterogeneities, by contrast, stresses and seeks to sustain more or less unconstrained relationalities, activities, inter-actions. It undertakes to conjure, craft, and coordinate collaborations. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1893 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultures cannot be isolated or defined but only change through contact — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 828; All cultures arise from mixture, so hybridity theory restates an essentialist error. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 915; Creolization dissolves the original purity of the categories being mixed — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 468 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Heterogeneity precedes and even prompts claims to purity, not merely negates them. #complicates (0.84) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1893