Identity politics in one domain can stabilize oppression in another

Evidence

The way in which a transgressive politics in one domain is constantly sutured and stabilized by reactionary or unexamined politics in another is only to be explained by this continuous cross-dislocation of one identity by another, one structure by another. Dominant ethnicities are always underpinned by a particular sexual economy, a particular figured masculinity, a particular class identity. There is no guarantee, in reaching for an essentialized racial identity of which we think we can be certain, that it will always turn out to be mutually liberating and progressive on all the other dimensions. It can be won. There is a politics there to be struggled for. But the invocation of a guaranteed black experience behind it will not produce that politics. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 293

Categorization

• XREF: This non-essentialist, intersectional anti-foundationalism connects directly to the ideology-critique toolkit the reader is building for Islamophobia readings: identical to critiques of appealing to a single ‘authentic’ Muslim identity as automatically liberatory. — connects to: The category of the Other precedes and enables material oppression, not vice versa — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 147; Both identity politics and anti-experience purism alike can coerce and exclude students — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 172; Politicized identity groups invest deeply in their own powerlessness to ground their existence — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1935 (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the concept that no identity axis (race) guarantees progressive outcomes on other axes, making the cross-dislocation of identity structures the explanatory mechanism.