"Identity Is Not About Returning to Your Roots, but About Coming to Terms With Your Routes"

"I think we have to be open to understanding that our identities are not foundations for anything; they are unstable, they are multifarious—and that can be unsettling. But we have to find ways to become comfortable with that, and part of how we can do that is by creating new ways of relating to each other, which can come through mass movements. The way we can overcome the fragmentation that identity seems to lead to now is precisely by recognizing what the Combahee River Collective proposed: being able to assert a political autonomy and also being in coalitions. I think that's very practical. It's not going to come from having endless arguments on Twitter; it's something that has to come through political activity. It's through working on concrete, practical projects in coalition with others."

Rashmee Kumar at The Intercept interviews Asad Haider, author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump.