Politicized collective identity is always a nested identity within a larger community

Evidence

Communities negotiate “difference” through a borderline process that reveals the hybridity of cultural identity: they create a sense of themselves to and through an other. Reed’s metaphoric boundary between black and white communities, cannot then be assumed as a binary division. And black or minority intellectuals committed to an antiseparatist politics of community have no option but to place themselves in that dangerous and incomplete position where the racial divide is forced to recognize - on either side of the color line — a shared antagonistic or abject terrain. It has become a common ground, not because it is consensual or “just,” but because it is infused and inscribed with the sheer contingency of everyday coming and going, struggle and survival. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2678 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Politicized identity converts a group from thing-in-itself to actor-for-itself; Politicized identity requires embracing membership in the society one contests; Politicized collective identity requires power struggles reaching beyond immediate antagonists — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4395 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Communities form identity relationally only through encounter with an other #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2678