ABSTRACT
We apply our Articulation model to a case study within Black cultural studies. Looking to identity politics, we interrogate how subjects enter relations of subordination in some contexts and dominance in others through the projection of different identities across those contexts. This discussion brings with it an analysis of the philosophical and political implications of identity projection and ascription with regards to race. By showing how subjectivity can produce identities from its own repertoire as well as onboard externally defined, context dependent, identities to certain ends, we unveil the process by which subjects take what is apparent within context and put those markers to use in unexpected yet appropriate ways. We also see how one is made to onboard the means of their own subordination. We do this by analyzing the rise of calls for “African-American” identity as result of Rev. Jesse Jackson's call in the 1980s and “Black”-ness.
