Being culturally cutting edge draws people into actively embracing a post-racial identity

Evidence

You might say that the music of the hardcore continuum reflects the emergence of this post-racial “people” within the UK more than it has created it. But I think it has sped up the process, by being so attractive and so obviously the cutting edge in British popular culture. People have been actively drawn into joining this tribe, it’s been an identity many have wanted to embrace, because it’s been the coolest music of its era and it’s been something to be proud of: a post-racial way of affirming Britishness. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1269

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jungle and UK garage created a post-racial British people before it fully arrived socially — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1267; Naturalizing one’s own cultural identity drives racialization of social life; Ethnicity approaches treat race as voluntary culture rather than imposed corporeal status — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 37 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Symbolic threat frames adoption of outgroup culture as losing racial identity #complicates (0.85)
• Ethnicity approaches treat race as voluntary culture rather than imposed corporeal status #expands (0.80) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 37
• Cultural identity operates as a positioning, not an essence #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 267
• Naturalizing one’s own cultural identity drives racialization of social life #complicates (0.75)
• Well-intentioned professionals feel identity-threatened by renouncing cultural invasion #complicates (0.75) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 497