Transgressive politics in one domain gets stabilized by reactionary politics in another
Evidence
Thus, to put it crudely, certain ways in which black men continue to live out their counteridentities as black masculinities and replay those fantasies of black masculinities in the theaters of popular culture are, when viewed from along other axes of difference, the very masculine identities that are oppressive to women, that claim visibility for their hardness only at the expense of the vulnerability of black women and the feminization of gay black men. The way in which a transgressive politics in one domain is constantly sutured and stabilized by reactionary or unexamined politics in another is only to be explained by this continuous cross-dislocation of one identity by another, one structure by another. Dominant ethnicities are always underpinned by a particular sexual economy, a particular figured masculinity, a particular class identity. There is no guarantee, in reaching for an essentialized racial identity of which we think we can be certain, that it will always turn out to be mutually liberating and progressive on all the other dimensions. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 293
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The cross-dislocation claim generalizes to a warning for the Islamophobia field: resistance politics can reproduce the very hierarchies they oppose on other axes.
Related
- Identity politics in one domain can stabilize oppression in another (similarity 0.93)