Black critical intellectuals must renegotiate identity from a migrant condition

Evidence

Cut loose from the ideological moorings of separatism and assimilation, black critical intellectuals, in particular, must renegotiate their place from the experience of “uprooting, disjuncture, and metamorphosis… that is, a migrant condition,… from which can be derived a metaphor for all humanity” (Rushdie, 1991:394). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2673

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the black intellectual’s position as a migrant, border-zone condition drawing on Rushdie’s metaphor of uprooting and metamorphosis.