Scary Negroes with Guns
...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...
Melancholic Damage
...— 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...
Full-Time Daughter
...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...
Who Are You and What Do You Really Know?
Gaslighting and Dolezalean logic
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
Coming to America
...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...
All Presidents
...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...
Hello From the Same Side
...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...
Yellow Fever
Desire is something that’s irrational, and often delusional.
She Mad and She Magic
...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...
Not All Nerds
...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...
Hate and Basketball
...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...
Party Like It’s 1992
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
White Magic
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
Black President
...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...
#JustineHasLanded
...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...