Race politics scholarship must replace generalizations with situated accounts

Evidence

Drawing on research in a variety of political settings, they suggest the need to move beyond generalizations about the nature of political mobilization towards a more nuanced and situated account of the changing boundaries of political involvement and exclusion. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1643

Categorization

• QUESTION: Useful contrast to Omi & Winant’s more system-level racial formation theory: is situated analysis compatible with their framework?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1643
• XREF: connects to: Feminist scholarship on race often fails to interrogate the writer’s own location — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 161; the MOC “The False Compass: How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self”