Enemy and friend categories are mutually constructed within identity

Evidence

The irony of disciplinary inclusion is the extent to which it turns phobic and philic sentiments into the very architecture of identity formation. It constructs Muslim enemies even as (or precisely because) it stipulates the qualities of Muslim friends. Disciplinary inclusion encourages the Muslim friend to control and marginalize the Muslim enemy, a contest that unfolds in the Self, the family, the community, the nation-state, and the transregional diaspora. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 709

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘disciplinary inclusion’ as a mechanism for how any marginalized group’s self-definition internalizes the oppressor’s frame — could extend beyond Muslims to other minorities.
• XREF: connects to: Serialized classes coalesce into groups only through a common external enemy. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 559; Identities co-create each other so no category has analytic priority — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 83; Antagonism can manifest as agonism between friendly enemies sharing symbolic space — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 67 (+3 more)