Search Results for “white femininity” – Page 6

Bad Mothers

By JB BragerJuly 7, 2011

...through photographic media. Tapia conjures ghosts, haunting figures, and vanished presences, recalls histories of racialized motherhood sloughed away in the sculpting of the Pietà of American nationalism—the universalized white maternal...

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Lose Your Kin

By Christina SharpeNovember 16, 2016

...White people must refuse reconciliation to ongoing brutality; they must rend the fabric of the kinship narrative “SLAVERY is the ghost in the machine of kinship.” Saidiya Hartman’s...

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Capital Flows

By Bijan StephenMay 8, 2014

...art by imp kerr The story of rap, art, and money doesn’t and can’t end with white people getting ahold of it “Labor is prior to, and independent...

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Homegrown Fascism

By Natasha LennardJune 14, 2021

The George Floyd rebellions carried forward the legacy of a Black radical tradition that has long insisted that racist fascism coexists within, rather than in antagonism to, US liberal democracy.

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Under the Rainbow

By Tyrone PalmerJuly 28, 2015

...very existence must be erased. This schism between the suffering Black queer and the liberated white one is calcified in the ongoing, still-deadly HIV/AIDS epidemic. AIDS and Blackness overlap in...

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Carceral Capitalism

By Jackie WangJanuary 22, 2018

Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.

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Chinua Achebe and the Damnation of Faint Praise

By Aaron BadyMarch 22, 2013

...achievement to pretend that white writers don’t write about the things he wrote about, because if Rush’s novels (or any post-war white novelist) had to be placed next to Achebe’s,...

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Digital Runways, Paper Dolls

By Minh-Ha T. PhamSeptember 17, 2013

...image by imp kerr We know that fashion shows are overwhelmingly white. What about virtual fashion shows? On April 13, 2011, the British fashion house Burberry celebrated the...

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Black Mirrors

By Alexandria SmithApril 11, 2018

Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora

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In His Own Image

By Claire Harlan OrsiFebruary 3, 2015

...Then there’s the patriarchy. In her influential book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Politics of Femininity, Julia Serrano coined the term “transmisogyny” to describe the confluence...

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The Fake as More

By Sarah Nicole PrickettJuly 22, 2014

...because “people didn’t take [her] seriously with a high one,” but then they didn’t trust her femininity with a low one. So she sang “Blue Velvet” but wore strawberry pink...

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A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky

By Lauren JacksonSeptember 24, 2014

...time, facing scenarios every bit as complex as their white counterparts. The end of some long-running white sitcoms like Seinfeld made way for new post-Friends millennium favorites such as How...

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What Lands On Us

By William C. Anderson and Zoe SamudziJune 5, 2018

An excerpt from Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson's new book, As Black as Resistance, examines diasporic relationships to land.

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Boom and Rust

By Meagan DayNovember 20, 2014

...punitive elements. In the gift shop, you can browse books and pamphlets that reconstruct and celebrate the lives of the town’s majority demographic—single white American men, hard workers and heavy...

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Black Life, Annotated

By Christina SharpeAugust 8, 2014

...Gary Simmons “Black Chalkboard (Yo, Ho, Ho),” (1993) via Hirshhorn Museum Alice Goffman's critically acclaimed ethnography On the Run is another story about a white lady come to...

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Mall Gothic

By Anna Aguiar KosickiAugust 18, 2022

White American nostalgia is neurotically fixated on social constructions that are imagined dead even as they become stronger, as evidenced by the twin histories of the mall and the Midwest