Ethnicity is a discursive capacity to enunciate identities, and everyone has one.

Evidence

So that’s really what “New Ethnicities” is about—to rescue what is specific in the notion of an ethnicity. I use the discursive notion, that is, ethnicity is what enables us to enunciate ourselves, our identities. And everybody needs that, including the British. The British have an ethnicity like everyone else. Everybody comes through a set of specific cultural roots, which makes possible what they can and aren’t going to say in a particular moment. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1017

Categorization

• DEFINE: Hall defines ethnicity discursively: as the enabling condition of self-enunciation, belonging to everyone including dominant/first-world groups.
• XREF: This de-naturalizes whiteness/Britishness as unmarked norm — a core move the Islamophobia field will repeat with Western/European ‘unmarked’ identity.