Racial subjection is never complete because imposed identity provokes internal redefinition

Evidence

This represents a project of governance that, even where relatively effective from the point of view of racial rule, was never quite complete. One might say it never could be complete, for subjection in both (and related) senses of the term promotes its resistance; imposition from the outside - the external - calls forth at least redefinition internally, in terms of the already (pre-) existing sum of defining conditions of the self, and at most outright, explicit rejection, denial, dismissal. The self accordingly is always caught - split - between the past and the present, the self itself (so to speak, as already socially defined and conditioned) and the social, between self-assumption and imposition, in short, between “my”-self and its other. This is especially so in the context of race: race as socially (and state) imposed and as taken on “freely,” assumed as a project, as a self-making. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1681

Categorization

• DEFINE: Detail: racialized self-formation as an unresolvable split between imposed racial definition and self-assumed identity as a project.
• XREF: Sharpens the vault’s broad ‘racialization’ usage: imposed race always coexists with active self-making, aligning with Omi & Winant’s later stress on racial projects as contested. — connects to: Outward racial rigidity masks internally contradictory individual subjectivities; Black racial identity is externally imposed before it is self-chosen — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 340; Apparent racial inconsistency can reflect adherence to divergent contextual norms — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1889 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Outward racial rigidity masks internally contradictory individual subjectivities #expands (0.93)
• Black racial identity is externally imposed before it is self-chosen #corroborates (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 340
• Apparent racial inconsistency can reflect adherence to divergent contextual norms #exemplifies (0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1889