Declared specificity must be enacted to resist assimilation.

Evidence

Pronouncing one’s specificity is not enough if one is to escape the lethal, indistinct confusion of assimilations; this specificity still has to be put into action before consenting to any outcome. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 745

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies that strategic essentialism — announcing one’s difference or root identity — requires action, not mere pronouncement, to avoid collapsing back into assimilation.
• XREF: connects to: Diasporic identity must be deliberately reconfigured rather than naturally inherited. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1203

Broader Connections

• Diasporic identity must be deliberately reconfigured rather than naturally inherited. #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1203