Marginalized groups can weaponize purity discourse to contest nationalist inclusion

Evidence

At the same time, there is mounting resistance to creolization among the Hindu cultural elite. In their campaign, they are employing their resources of symbolic power to petition for inclusion in the nationalist space as East Indians. Hindu purity is being deployed as a symbolic resource by these leaders to delegitimize the representations and practices of a polluted Creole discourse. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3260

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely counterintuitive inversion: the excluded group does not claim hybridity but deploys the same purity logic that excluded them, now against Afro-Creole nationalism — a self-contradictory yet effective strategy worth sitting with.
• XREF: connects to: Sinhalese nationalist purity tests dismiss co-ethnics with anglicized backgrounds. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 299; Full state embrace of one’s nationalist ideology forecloses minority accommodation. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 719; State homogenization programs bred contradictory nationalist claims that spur secession — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1021 (+2 more)