Do people of color identify as white? Working through a taboo question in critical whiteness studies

Our essay aims to uncover capital’s shifting dynamic across race, especially its subversion of essentializing phenotype as source of racial subjectivization. Following this aim, we perform open transnational-yet-local inter-related critical circuits, discussing intra- and inter-subjectivizations, learning together through geographies of “ ‘selves’ ”. We ask readers to allow us to refer to author “identities” and research writing formulae as identities® and research writing formulae so we might re-size our “ ‘selves’ ” within the blanquitud study collectiveFootnote1. As a collective, we take on a taboo question in critical whiteness studies and, by degrees, other race-based epistemologies, a question that is hardly mentionable and almost unthinkable in present-day CWS and RBEs: Do people of Color identify as White? Overall, as our essay bears out, we drive toward anti-essentializing subjectivizations and better articulated anti-racist and anti-capitalist understandings and alliances.