Coalitional antiracist identity politics suppressed internal differences among the nonwhite

Evidence

Those who have written about the antiracist struggles of these years tend to identify cross-cultural consolidation as essential to the fight against white racism. Kenan Malik, for example, has written of how the Indian Workers Association of the 1960s and 1970s included not just Indians but Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, too. … However, as James Procter notes, “while the inclusive nature of ‘black’ in the 1970s offered a way of overcoming cultural ‘differences,’ it also led to the suppression of difference in presenting a unified front against racism. ‘Black’ was forced to conceal and perpetuate a range of inequalities and tensions internal to the imagined community it drew together.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 151

Categorization

• XREF: The suppression of internal difference inside ‘black’ coalition politics parallels the tensions Morey likely charts as different Muslim writers (Naqvi vs. Hamid) negotiate post-9/11 solidarity vs. distinct identity. — connects to: Nonwhite Americans can perpetuate white-supremacist cultural frameworks — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 168; Assimilationist anti-racism both erased black-white difference and homogenized black peoples — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1189; Critiques of essentialism and identity politics can silence marginalized groups themselves — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 168 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies the strategic, coalitional meaning of ‘black’ in 1970s British antiracism — a historically specific term a reader analyzing South Asian Muslim fiction must not anachronize.