Critical regionalism resists homogenization wherever racial states impose it

Evidence

Racial regionalizations of the kind I have mapped here are dispositions to homogenization, in space and across time. What Gayatri Spivak compellingly has called critical regionalisms and the habits they engender in the places and moments inhabited, by contrast, embody dispositions to heterogeneity, to heterogenizing, across all places and at all times. They concern those regions that are both crucial to comprehending globalizing impacts of racial states and critical of any attempts to narrow the possibilities of people to define their sensibilities and values, their ways of being, their habits and habitations for themselves sensitive to the full and equal consideration of each. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1904

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spivak’s ‘critical regionalism’ introduces a spatial-political framework opposing homogenizing racial regionalizations.
• XREF: Continues the reader’s thread on scalarity and spatial organization of power — regionalism as a spatial unit resisting both state and globalizing forces. — connects to: State homogenization programs bred contradictory nationalist claims that spur secession — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1021
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1904