Racial category emphasis can obscure shared interests across racial lines

Evidence

For example, stressing racial and ethnic differences can obscure the experiences and interests women may share as women. We therefore need to ask: Who is constructing the categories and defining the boundaries? Who is resisting these imposed identity creations and definitions? What are the consequences being written into or out of particular categories? What happens when subordinate groups seek to mobilize along boundaries drawn for the purposes of domination? What happens to individuals whose multiple identities may be fragmented and segmented by category politics? — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 120

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forced close proximity and shared goals can flatten perceived racial differences. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 91; Unitary categories like race and class fray at the edges under sustained analysis — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 354; Aggregating distinct Multiracial groups as one category erases their differing experiences. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 51