Reclaiming a slur as a defiant identity label emerges from colonized shame

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

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reclamation dynamics the reader will later study in Muslim identity politics — the defiant re-appropriation of a stigmatized name. — connects to: Reclaimed slurs retain traces of the struggle that resignified them; Racial identity arises as a negative product of oppression; Identities are reinforced by outsider-given labels (+7 more)
• SEED: Comparative essay angle: how colonized and racialized groups re-appropriate stigmatized identity terms across Negritude, Black Power, and Muslim-identitarian movements.

Related

• Racial identity arises as a negative product of oppression (similarity 0.91)
• Reclaimed slurs retain traces of the struggle that resignified them (similarity 0.90)

Broader Connections

• Colonized subjects reconstruct their identity by hand after it is shattered #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 542
• Identities are reinforced by outsider-given labels #complicates (0.75)