Diasporic identity politics entails recovering suppressed histories

Evidence

Do you imagine their culture—their Jamaicanness—which they took with them just goes on throbbing, unchanged, untransformed, preserving their culture as a fixed umbilical cord? Of course, they have roots, but don’t you think they also had to put down new roots? How otherwise did they survive? For Caribbean people—part of a colonial and Pan-African diaspora who, having emigrated again, have been twice “diasporized,” who go on being “translated”—their “routes” are as critical to their identities as their “roots.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1201 (#expands, via linked claim)

But the constancy of my love had been forgotten. I defined myself as an absolute intensity of beginning. So I took up my negritude, and with tears in my eyes I put its machinery together again. What had been broken to pieces was rebuilt, reconstructed by the intuitive lianas of my hands. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 542 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Identity politics must return to the past only through narrative reinvention; Historical narratives can reverse which conquered people anchors national identity — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 138; Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. (+4 more)

Related

• Diasporic identity is formed by routes as much as by roots (similarity 0.86)
• Diasporic identities are revised and transformed, not fixed in Tradition (similarity 0.86)
• Diasporic identity must be deliberately reconfigured rather than naturally inherited. (similarity 0.84)
• Caribbean identity work is active reinterpretation of Africa, not unbroken cultural transmission. (similarity 0.82)
• Diasporic identity is multiple, layered, and contextually activated (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial identity construction disavows subaltern histories that cultural translation work must restore (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural identity is a forward-directed production, not a recovery of origins (similarity 0.79)
• Diaspora is quietly subverting the nation-state model of identity (similarity 0.79)
• Rediscovering African cultural roots produced the Caribbean’s only successful revolution (similarity 0.78)
• Diaspora identity cannot be thought through literal homeland metaphors. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Identity politics must return to the past only through narrative reinvention #expands (0.85)
• Diasporic identity is formed by routes as much as by roots #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1201
• Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. #complicates (0.78)
• Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered #corroborates (0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 542
• Historical narratives can reverse which conquered people anchors national identity #exemplifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 138