27 March 2017

Work in Progress: The Politics of Constructed Identity....(Copy/Paste from My Facebook Account)

originally posted 27 March 2017
last updated 02 April 2017

Re: Marr's video, and I think (and I am still working on this...so I may be incorrect in part ...) I think that the overwhelmingly rigidity of the performance of Islam tolerated in the UK, intersecting racism in the UK's Ummah, intersecting the class(ism)/racism in larger British society can produce a set of dynamics that can facilitate the emergence of this subset in the UK Ummah...this tiny subset...that seeks out Intentionally the #Identity of those deemed the #Others and once acquiring that Identity seeks a purification and/or validation and/or sanctification by a certain performance of identity that is valued by a subset of the newly vested identity.

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Debra V. Wilson And whilst I think that overwhelmingly there is still rigidity of accepted performance of Islam in the UK...I recognize and believe that conceptualisation of the faith is varied and nuanced.

Rachel Dolezal: 'The idea of race is a lie' - BBC Newsnight #Race as a #PoliticallyConstructed #Identity
Choosing the #Identity of the #Other can #Define your #Conceptualisation of the #Space (Politically) that #You currently #Occupy (and are attempting to shed.)



Rachel Dolezal - the white US woman who said she was black - says "the idea of race is a lie". Speaking in an interview with Emily Maitlis, she argued that t...
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And this a quick and early stages analysis and look at a tiny subset of people.
Marr at approximately 2:16
And I do recgonize it is more complex and this is way too simplistic and not meant to be over-reaching as I define myself as a convert...and yet there is a reason that some would say Muslims are the new Black...that sociological heirarchies/Identity/spaces occupied of #theBlack (particularly from the US) and #theMuslim (post 9/11) share some similarities in the #Political construction of their respective #Identities
Choosing the #Identity of the #Other can #Define your #Conceptualisation of the #Space (Politically) that #You currently #Occupy (and are attempting to shed.)



A critic of the quasi-state-surveillance strategy 'Prevent', Baroness Warsi reacts to the attack on Wednesday…
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