Domination consigns all who differ merely by virtue of difference to the enemy camp

Evidence

Given the embedded nature of racial processes in the contemporary environment, it is unsurprising that subordinate groups may invoke difference to mystify, to deny knowledge of themselves to the dominant groups, to confuse and neutralize those who attempt to control or “help” them, or to reduce them to research objects. They may use difference to stress their own separateness, and to authorize their own representations. They may seek to legitimize their own definitions of cultural difference, including those against others from within their own collectivity. … This can lead at times, as we shall see later, to a strange convergence in the language of the racist right and of black or ethnic nationalists, as both infuse the racial or ethnic category with essentialist, and supposedly naturally inherited, characteristics. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 115 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Essentialisms that take for granted received categories and relations of difference - and particularly the practices used in defining and naturalizing them run the risk of being appropriated by states, institutions, elites, and other parties that seek to sustain or extend relations of social inequality and domination. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Subordinate groups strategically deploy difference to resist dominant control and revalue themselves — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 115; Essentialist notions of group difference get appropriated by elites to sustain domination. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291; Equal men who desire the same scarce thing become enemies (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Subordinate groups strategically deploy difference to resist dominant control and revalue themselves #contradicts (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 115
• Essentialist notions of group difference get appropriated by elites to sustain domination. #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291
• Equal men who desire the same scarce thing become enemies #exemplifies (0.80)
• Dominant-race domination is sustained by threat invested in the subjugated #contradicts (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1504