Antiracist politics operates as a Gramscian war of position across multiple identity locations.

Evidence

That is the politics of living identity through difference. It is the politics of recognizing that all of us are composed of multiple social identities, not of one. That we are all complexly constructed through different categories, of different antagonisms, and these may have the effect of locating us socially in multiple positions of marginality and subordination, but positions which do not yet operate on us in exactly the same way. It is also to recognize that any counterpolitics of the local which attempts to organize people through their diversity of identifications has to be a struggle which is conducted positionally. It is the beginning of antiracism, antisexism, and anticlassism as a war of positions, as the Gramscian notion of the war of position. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 253

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘war of position’ as the Gramscian model for conducting counterpolitics through diverse, overlapping identifications.
• XREF: Directly imports Gramsci’s ‘war of position’ — this is a core scaffold concept the reader will carry into Islamophobia theory. — connects to: Early antiracism’s black-white focus was reductive and essentialist, obscuring multiple racisms. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 900
• QUESTION: How does ‘identity through difference’ vs. the single-axis model of racism used in some Islamophobia scholarship shift the analytical frame?