Assuming political unity by race denies black people genuine political agency.

Evidence

But certain assumptions that informed the politics of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s—for example, that black people ought to share political purposes because they are black—strike me as naïve at best and politically dangerous at worst. In some ways, they assume that black people aren’t political at all, that we’re just hardwired to hold certain positions, as if they are encoded in our genes and evident in our skin pigment. To believe such a thing is to throw democratic politics out the window. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 336

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s own work on social capital and how group identity can mask divergent internal interests; also echoes Milgrom’s point that homogeneous groups still need institutional coordination.