Assimilationist anti-racism both erased black-white difference and homogenized black peoples

Evidence

These courageous yet limited black efforts to combat racist cultural practices uncritically accepted non-black conventions and standards in two ways. First, they proceeded in an assimilationist manner that set out to show that black people were really like white people, thereby eliding differences (cultural, historical) between whites and blacks … Second, these black responses rested upon a homogenizing impulse that assumed that all black people were really alike—hence obliterating differences (class, gender, region, sexual orientation) between black peoples. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1189

Categorization

• XREF: Cornel West’s double critique — assimilation elides difference, homogenization obliterates it — echoes the book’s value-hierarchy and homogenization analysis (ch13). — connects to: Antiracists reclaimed ‘Black’ while assimilationists clung to ‘Negro’ — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 995; Assimilationism is a racist stance despite affirming biological racial equality — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 15; Assimilationist thinking colors freedom itself as white and requires abandonment of Black identity — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 251 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Assimilationist thinking colors freedom itself as white and requires abandonment of Black identity #expands (0.82) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 251
• Antiracists reclaimed ‘Black’ while assimilationists clung to ‘Negro’ #expands (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 995
• Coalitional antiracist identity politics suppressed internal differences among the nonwhite #complicates (0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 151
• Assimilationism is a racist stance despite affirming biological racial equality #expands (0.78) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 15
• A black-white paradigm in antiracism theory obscures other racisms and inequality forms #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 900