Appeals to authenticity can police and exclude insiders as insufficiently authentic.

Evidence

While political legitimacy, gaining access or a hearing, may depend on being able to “call up” a constituency and authorize representations through appeals to authenticity, it provides the basis for policing the boundaries of authenticity. Here, some “insiders” may find themselves excluded because they are not considered to be authentic enough. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 119

Categorization

• QUESTION: The authentic-insider policing point raises whether the vault’s identity claims ever counter it; worth checking.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 119
• XREF: connects to: Tammany valued an uneducated ally’s authenticity over credentialed polish — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 533; Authenticity is judged by others against demographic norms, not by inner voice — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 272