White subjectivity projects self-authorship that others must navigate differently

Evidence

I want to suggest that the European rise to ascendancy, which encompasses both the development of capitalism and the elastic era of modernity, gives rise to a fiction of white subjectivity as self-authorship. The rest of the world also wishes to self-author, but we come to modernity differently. Fashion is one technique of this self-authorship, and, on occasion, is the technique most available to women. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2841

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘immodesty’ moral panics theme — dress as a tool available to women when other modes of identity-formation are closed off. — connects to: the MOC “The Forge and the Other: How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self”