Micaela di Leonardo
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190870195
- eISBN:
- 9780190870225
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190870195.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Culture
Chapter 6 lays out the TJMS’s history of dealing extensively and as an activist counterpubic node with the racism baked into the U.S. criminal justice system, including the differential treatment of ...
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Chapter 6 lays out the TJMS’s history of dealing extensively and as an activist counterpubic node with the racism baked into the U.S. criminal justice system, including the differential treatment of whites versus all people of color—as in media neglect of the cases of missing black girls and women. It also lays out TJMS’s militant gun-control stance and opposition to the NRA. It documents their reactions to black offenders, and to innocent African Americans released from prison because of DNA evidence. It lays out TJMS coverage of and activism for victims of police violence/racist criminal justice Sean Bell, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Melissa Alexander, and Michael Brown.Less
Chapter 6 lays out the TJMS’s history of dealing extensively and as an activist counterpubic node with the racism baked into the U.S. criminal justice system, including the differential treatment of whites versus all people of color—as in media neglect of the cases of missing black girls and women. It also lays out TJMS’s militant gun-control stance and opposition to the NRA. It documents their reactions to black offenders, and to innocent African Americans released from prison because of DNA evidence. It lays out TJMS coverage of and activism for victims of police violence/racist criminal justice Sean Bell, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Melissa Alexander, and Michael Brown.
George Yancy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198716778
- eISBN:
- 9780191785351
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716778.003.0014
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics, Feminist Philosophy
This chapter theorizes Black body aesthetics through the lens of the white gaze, which is parasitic upon the construction of the Black body as ersatz, disgusting, and ontologically problematic. The ...
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This chapter theorizes Black body aesthetics through the lens of the white gaze, which is parasitic upon the construction of the Black body as ersatz, disgusting, and ontologically problematic. The white gaze is an historical achievement, a site of lived sedimentation of white power and privilege that perpetuates violence upon Black bodies. As such, the white gaze is contingent, and the relational ontology it assumes is not historically inexorable, but undoable. Through contemporary incidents of violence by white police (and their proxies), this chapter shows that white gazing presupposes a fundamental site of what is called “suturing,” an embodied white practice that involves fleeing the ways in which we are, in these terms, un-sutured: an important ontological claim about human persons. It argues that white people must develop specific socio-ontological un-suturing practices, ones that refuse to cover over the festering reality of white lies and white attempts at self-mastery.Less
This chapter theorizes Black body aesthetics through the lens of the white gaze, which is parasitic upon the construction of the Black body as ersatz, disgusting, and ontologically problematic. The white gaze is an historical achievement, a site of lived sedimentation of white power and privilege that perpetuates violence upon Black bodies. As such, the white gaze is contingent, and the relational ontology it assumes is not historically inexorable, but undoable. Through contemporary incidents of violence by white police (and their proxies), this chapter shows that white gazing presupposes a fundamental site of what is called “suturing,” an embodied white practice that involves fleeing the ways in which we are, in these terms, un-sutured: an important ontological claim about human persons. It argues that white people must develop specific socio-ontological un-suturing practices, ones that refuse to cover over the festering reality of white lies and white attempts at self-mastery.
Theodore Vial
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190212551
- eISBN:
- 9780190212575
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190212551.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
By looking at recent examples in the news (Charlie Hebdo, Michael Brown, for example), examples from the academic study of religion, and personal examples, the introduction makes the case that ...
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By looking at recent examples in the news (Charlie Hebdo, Michael Brown, for example), examples from the academic study of religion, and personal examples, the introduction makes the case that religion and race are not going away in the contemporary world. They are intractable because they are part of the conceptual architecture of modernity. We must extend extant genealogies of religion and race past the Enlightenment. It is the generation following the Enlightenment, and in particular a group of post-Kantian German thinkers, who gave final shape to the modern world. It is necessary to look at these thinkers to gain a full understanding of how religion and race operate, and their intractability, in the present world.Less
By looking at recent examples in the news (Charlie Hebdo, Michael Brown, for example), examples from the academic study of religion, and personal examples, the introduction makes the case that religion and race are not going away in the contemporary world. They are intractable because they are part of the conceptual architecture of modernity. We must extend extant genealogies of religion and race past the Enlightenment. It is the generation following the Enlightenment, and in particular a group of post-Kantian German thinkers, who gave final shape to the modern world. It is necessary to look at these thinkers to gain a full understanding of how religion and race operate, and their intractability, in the present world.
