Both settler and liberation epistemologies falsely treat identity as fixed.

Evidence

What is left unexplored in the Eurocentric discourses cited above, the texts under discussion in this article, and the ZANU-PF regime’s emphasis on patriotic history as the indispensable modus operandi in determining who belongs and who does not, is that identities are fluid. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 44

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reading purpose: the author posits that both sides of the Zimbabwean struggle share an essentialist blindness to fluid identity, which frames the grievance-persistence question. — connects to: Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 890; Settler-colonial solidarity persists only through materially maintained structures, not primordial identity — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2139; Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Identifies fluidity of identity as the missed analytic for understanding both colonial and postcolonial belonging.

Broader Connections

• Settler mentalities are effects of dominance structures, not fixed identities. #corroborates (0.95) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2040
• Settler-colonial solidarity persists only through materially maintained structures, not primordial identity #expands (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2139
• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #corroborates (0.82)
• Reversal that revalues the subordinated identity without restructuring it stays trapped in dualism #expands (0.78) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 244
• Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them #qualifies (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 890