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Search Results for: white femininity

Essays & Reviews

Scary Negroes with Guns

By Messiah RhodesFebruary 23, 2015
...The imaginary guns that white people perceive in black hands reveal a longstanding fear of black resistance On a recent road trip we made a stop at gun...
Essays & Reviews

Melancholic Damage

By Robin JamesMay 30, 2013
...— a structure of subjectivity specific to neoliberal femininity — is actually an attempt to obscure our multiracial white supremacist patriarchy’s own damage and pathologies. Just to clarify: I’m not...
Features

Who Are You and What Do You Really Know?

By Zoe SamudziMay 13, 2017
Gaslighting and Dolezalean logic
Essays & Reviews

Full-Time Daughter

By Hannah BlackJuly 15, 2014
...construct the kind of iconic girlhood that white America goes crazy for. But her relation to this history feels complicated. She aims to be “classic,” an aesthetic throwback to a...
Essays & Reviews

White Defenders

By Patrick BlanchfieldMay 23, 2017
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
Essays & Reviews

Coming to America

By Yahdon IsraelAugust 10, 2015
...didn’t like Dove, Irish Spring and Lever 2000’s suggestion that soap should be white or light-pastel. Cleanliness was next to godliness and since God was Black, our soap was black...
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All Presidents

By Aaron BadyDecember 13, 2013
...a president who reconciled white brothers while leaving the inclusion of anyone else for someone else to fix; he was not white. These facts are so obvious, they can be...
Essays & Reviews

Hello From the Same Side

By Robin JamesDecember 28, 2015
...world reflect your intuitive sense with dissonance-free immediacy is the height of privilege. This is what Trump’s white (able-bodied, English-speaking…) fans are accustomed to, and one way his performances reaffirm...
Features

Yellow Fever

By Hiji Nam and Grace M. ChoMarch 14, 2018
Desire is something that’s irrational, and often delusional.
Essays & Reviews

She Mad and She Magic

By Muna MireAugust 13, 2015
...tune with the news cycle or white America’s national interests at the time. Despite everyone’s surprise, the book received a great deal of publicity, in large part due to second-wave...
Essays & Reviews

Not All Nerds

By Christopher T. FanNovember 6, 2014
...By imagining nerds as a race of their own, Silicon Valley tries to disguise its white supremacy. In the climax to Steve Zacharias and Jeff Buhai’s 1984 frat-house film...
Essays & Reviews

Hate and Basketball

By Elliott Prasse-FreemanApril 24, 2012
...racial issues eclipsing one another because they have together simultaneously obscured the "dark matter" that lurks behind and animates their orbit: the white side. In this murky domain there seems...
Essays & Reviews

Party Like It’s 1992

By Bobby LondonSeptember 5, 2017
Early colonization and current gentrification are linked by their use of cages to gain land and exert zero-sum autonomy over those with darker skin
Essays & Reviews

White Magic

By Lou CornumFebruary 5, 2018
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
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Black President

By Brandon HarrisJuly 1, 2014
...By cramming two blockbusters into a single screen, J Hoberman made White House Butler Down , the ultimate in late-Obama cinema. He talked with TNI film critic Brandon Harris...
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#JustineHasLanded

By Aaron BadyDecember 21, 2013
...to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!" UPDATE: Gerry suggested I might be misreading the joke: Why were these words sufficient to damn her to the...

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