Collective racial subjectivity unified diverse movement demands at peak influence

Evidence

For a brief time the movement was able to link spontaneity and mass participation, on the one hand, with electoral/ institutional politics, on the other. The unifying element in this opposition was at first the burgeoning collective subjectivity of blacks— and later that of other people of color— which connected demands for access to the state with more radical demands for freedom, “self-determination,” cultural and organizational autonomy, “community control,” anda host of other issues. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 169

Categorization

• XREF: The claim about ‘collective subjectivity’ unifying a movement anchors Omi and Winant’s racial-formation thesis that race is a political organizing principle. — connects to: Movements grow powerful by fusing with other movements on shared agendas — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 719; The 1999 Seattle WTO protests united ideologically diverse movements under plural justice — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 611