The Plantation’s rigid racial hierarchy paradoxically generated ambiguous complexity

Evidence

One ofthese contradictions contrasts the tidy composition of such a universe-in which social hierarchy corresponds in maniacal, minute detail to a rnercilessly maintained racial hierarchy-with the ambiguous complexities otherwise proceeding from it. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 379

Categorization

• XREF: The paradox of tidy/rigid hierarchy producing ambiguous complexity resonates with the reader’s core question about whether strategic essentialism can avoid collapsing into residence — rigid structures generating looseness. — connects to: Outward racial rigidity masks internally contradictory individual subjectivities; Affective criteria silently indexed social origins within racialized colonial hierarchies. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 410; Creole discourse normalized racial hierarchy while hiding its exploitative basis. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3197 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Outward racial rigidity masks internally contradictory individual subjectivities #expands (0.90)
• Affective criteria silently indexed social origins within racialized colonial hierarchies. #corroborates (0.80) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 410
• Creole discourse normalized racial hierarchy while hiding its exploitative basis. #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3197
• Racism, gender, and class interconnections defy grand theoretical specification #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3005
• The Plantation was a socially pyramidal, enclosed autarky whose slave basis froze technical progress. #complicates (0.72) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 372