Scholars can reject received difference-categories without standing apart from the politics they study.

Evidence

I hope that this brief excursion into - rather than survey ofgenocide scholarship points to the value of linking it with racial and ethnic studies. Postmodernism and poststructuralism have critically engaged definitions of genocide, techniques of representation, and understandings of the place of genocide in history. … Recent work stresses the need to connect cultural and material dimensions, to view the creation of difference in relational rather than exclusionary terms, and to analyze relations of domination within racialized and sexualized communities. Essentialisms that take for granted received categories and relations of difference - and particularly the practices used in defining and naturalizing them run the risk of being appropriated by states, institutions, elites, and other parties that seek to sustain or extend relations of social inequality and domination. Scholars, activists, and jurists who endeavor to challenge racialized violence do not stand above or apart from the politics of the situations they study; they play in particular key roles in interpellating violence, creating intertextual relations between the accounts of “victims,” “perpetrators,” journalists, jurists, and mass audiences. In doing so, they help determine the success or failure of other parties who attempt to effect these discursive and political transformations. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291

Categorization

• XREF: The scholar-as-interpellator and intertextual-relations point connects to vault material on racialization as performative discourse and Omi-Winant’s racial projects operating through institutions, not just ideology. — connects to: Scholarship can advance feminist knowledge without claiming a feminist identity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291