Racial identity arises as a negative product of oppression

Evidence

That’s when we adopted the word negre, as a term of defiance. It was a defiant name. To some extent it was a reaction of enraged youth. Since there was shame about the word negre, we chose the word negre. I must say that when we founded L’Etudiant noir, I really wanted to call it L’Etudiant negre, but there was a great resistance to that among the Antilleans. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 333 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Identity is constituted through exclusion of what it is not; Some Othered traits are rejected as negative by the minority themselves. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 596; Racialization assigns presumed negative traits to define a group. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 594 (+10 more)

Related

• Reclaiming a slur as a defiant identity label emerges from colonized shame (similarity 0.91)
• New racial identities can form in response to racism itself (similarity 0.83)
• Reclaimed slurs retain traces of the struggle that resignified them (similarity 0.82)
• Racialization assigns presumed negative traits to define a group. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #expands (0.85)
• Reclaiming a slur as a defiant identity label emerges from colonized shame #qualifies (0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 333