Category: white supremacy
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Birds of America
There are many layers to racialized seeing. Some racism lies beneath familiar categories, like popular culture or advertising for decades, only to suddenly (re)activate. Natural history is always there, with its concept of a hierarchy of the human. And, yes, even birds.Audubon’s birds metonymically represent settler colonialism, the Second Amendment, white supremacy, and the invisibility…
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Antifascist visual tactics
There are plenty of people doing fascism right now in visual media. And during the pandemic, the social is media. What are antifascist tactics to disrupt the online fascist wave? No reposting. Whiting out white supremacy. Undermining its claims. And imagining the future.
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Whiteness, Visuality and the Virus
The corona virus was supposed to be the great equalizer, a leveler of the divides of race, class and gender. Instead, the invisible pathogen has not only made existing inequalities palpably visible, it has weaponized them. In one week in April, the virus has become racialized.
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The Jew and the Nationalists
Brexit-Trump nationalism now accuses its opponents of being racist. Not the old racism that it so gleefully parades but a newly invented tradition: anti-Israel racism.
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Etihad Man
What does white nationalism look like today? It looks like Etihad Man. A 41 year old ex-soldier in Northern Ireland turned civil engineering manager, whose idea of entertainment is physical and verbal racialized violence at the Etihad football (soccer) stadium in Manchester. He embodies how Thatcherism’s Great Moving Right Show turned into Brexit. On Saturday,…
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The Misogynist Aesthetics of Visuality
“All hitherto existing visuality becomes aesthetic by being misogynist.” This is the necessary update to my earlier claim that “the right to look ….is very much a feminist project.” Visuality is “masculine” or heroic because it is misogynist. It is that misogyny that enables its claim to legitimacy, that is, to make and embody law.…