Subordinate ethnic identities can function as a hierarchy that still camps top to blackness

Evidence

This index of deracializing identities creates a hierarchical and otherizing understanding of race. The myriad of ethnicities the mother posits implies that they are not as “bad” as being black. … Cervantes acknowledges the infantilizing effects of racialization, colonization, and marginalization, and how language bears these marks in its syllables - or scars she must recite to survive. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2498

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A racial hierarchy can be vertically ordered without collapsing into a flat white-versus-Black binary — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 66