Identities co-create each other so no category has analytic priority

Evidence

In the place of intersectionality, Kwan theorizes “cosynthesis:” … Cosynthesis insists that identity categories are sometimes themselves constructed or synthesized out of and relies [sic] upon other categorical notions. Therefore, this mutually defining, synergistic, and complicit relationship between identity categories is a dynamic model of multiple subordinating gestures. It denies the priority of the deconstructive concerns of class over race, of race over gender, or of gender over sexual orientation, of anything over anything else. … Furthermore, cosynthesis is a way of looking at identity that allows for situational and shifting power within categories. Most importantly, cosynthesis requires us to confront the complexity and the hybridity of subordinations in which identities are co-creating each other. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 83

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Kwan’s ‘cosynthesis’ as the dynamic co-construction of identity categories, replacing intersectionality’s static additive model.
• XREF: Directly parallels her earlier claim that intersectionality fails for assuming fixed categories, and maps onto the reader’s comparison project against Aziz’s Racial Muslim. — connects to: Intersectionality fails because it assumes race and gender categories stay fixed; Multiple subordinated identities compound into more than additive subordination. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 72; Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 378 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Identity works multiplicatively so no single dimension can be subtracted #corroborates (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1165
• Identity is constituted through relation to what is other and different from itself #corroborates (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 378
• All identity requires an ‘other’ against which it is defined #corroborates (0.85)
• Every identity is constituted relationally through what it excludes #corroborates (0.84) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 371
• Enemy and friend categories are mutually constructed within identity #expands (0.82) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 709
• Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not #expands (0.78)