Collective identities like class, race, nation and gender positioned the individual self

Evidence

I mean here the great collective social identities which we thought of as large-scale, all-encompassing, homogenous, unified collective identities, which could be spoken about almost as if they were singular actors in their own right but which, indeed, placed, positioned, stabilized, and allowed us to understand and read, almost as a code, the imperatives of the individual self: the great collective social identities of class, race, nation, gender, and the West. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 188

Categorization

• DEFINE: Identifies the specific list (class, race, nation, gender, the West) of ‘great collective social identities’ Hall argues functioned as codes reading the individual self — the scaffolding the decenterings then disturb.
• XREF: Directly feeds the imagined-community of the nation concept from Anderson that the reader’s Islamophobia module needs after this book. — connects to: Race, class, and nationality condition how objects are revealed to me.; Said casts class, nation, and gender as coercive identities that aesthetic consumption must escape — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 916; Constructing a people reveals representation as the primary terrain of social objectivity — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 322 (+4 more)