BIPOC was a strategic essentialism. It was used to address the issue of white claims of racism within the term 'racialized' as well as to disaggregate & put out front Black & Indigenous identities as those who endure the most prolific effects of racism & coloniality...1/3
As with other grand acronyms of Other, it will be temporary. It is insufficient, always has been. It was however necessary for strategic purposes. The issues are with what gets collapsed in PoC discourses, how Asian & South Asian, Latinx are not singular in place nor context. 2/3
We lose sight of the confluence of history, project, context (colonial-capitalism, caste hierarchy, colourism/shadism, indentureship, slavery) when we collapse B & I & PoC. It is for a particular audience to name how white supremacy operates. Nuanced analyses do exist & have 3/3.
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