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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 31–57.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Committee on white supremacy. Susan Bro has had a powerful and continuing media platform. She spoke calmly, with deliberation, but never appeared coached or scripted. Her grandmotherly and folksy demeanor made her approachable. Channeling her daughter's antiracist cause, Susan Bro was potentially more adept...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
Published: 01 September 2023
... dialogue about racism, affect, and political belonging. In our hypermediated society, affect is a critical tool of communication that can be used to create political boundaries. The refusal, for instance, to understand Black affect outside of its use for white supremacy produces a range of effects...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to define herself is not one determined by the history of white supremacy. These programs hinge on immobility as a mode of being. Depicting female subjects who will never entirely escape abjection, these shows also highlight racial and class-based differences in the embrace of not only this twenty-first...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 125–155.
Published: 01 September 2015
... into a Culver City back lot: peaceful, iso-
lated, and entirely white.”
— Allison Graham, “Griffith, Andy,”The New Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture, Volume 18: Media
In The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, 1960 – 68) episode “Andy Discov-
ers America,” Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) jokingly asks...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 157–167.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., technology, and youth advocacy who navigate office cultures scaffolded by white Figure 4. Insecure (HBO, 2016 ) 164 Camera Obscura supremacy. They are also adrift in the Los Angeles dating scene, but Issa and Molly find solace in each other. Though Insecure and other shows lack theme songs, they have...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 1–29.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and subversion of white supremacy. 39 In this part of the video, Snoopmaya draws attention to the hypocrisy of vilifying people trying to immigrate to a land that was stolen from indigenous populations. Here, Snoopmaya suggests that colonization is the original sin or original crime of the United States...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
Published: 01 May 2023
... donators (including the DeVos family), far-right-wing groups, persistent residues of the Tea Party movement, and ultimately, the White House. Propelled by Fox News and conservative pundits on social media, the protests were, in other words, largely sustained by interest groups with obvious investment...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., but these jokes illustrate how the
show’s humor racializes education and respectability as Asian
American within liberal white supremacy. The crisis of the “good
life” is told, not through Lily, but through other raced characters
who evoke and deploy cultural capital to express what education...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
Published: 01 May 2015
... representations. The title of this essay thus reflects the reality that, regardless of how positive a spin is put on representation, the work of white supremacy is always already done. Rather than continuing to have the same conversation that draws the same conclusions, we might do better by looking...
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Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in a circumscribed arena in which women's film is allowed to speak about women but not about film. More specifically, The Watermelon Woman both presents and represents the negotiations, mediations, and tensions triangulated among dominant film history, white feminist film studies and production, and black film...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 71–103.
Published: 01 May 2006
... scrawled on the
back of a photograph.
In the South, the predominant image of white supremacy
was not the police mug shot but the lynching postcard (figure 5).
The spectacle of lynching served simultaneously to terrorize blacks
and reassure whites. Kirk Fuoss estimates that between 1882...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 141–171.
Published: 01 December 2023
...: Routledge, 2012); and Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (New York: New York University Press, 2018). 42. For more on the white supremacy of contemporary computing, see Nicholas Mirzoeff, “Artificial Vision, White Space and Racial Surveillance...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... hooks, who argued in a 1994 article: “Palcy,
whether consciously or unconsciously, links the struggle to end
racism with feminist struggle, suggesting that any authentic white
male challenge to white supremacy threatens the structure of white
patriarchy.” hooks and others asserted...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 195–225.
Published: 01 December 2001
... Jr. was apparently offered a ride by
three men, two of them with links to white supremacy groups. He
was beaten, chained behind a truck, and dragged until his body
disintegrated. The Ku Klux Klan subsequently marched on
Jasper...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 37–65.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to the point, affect is historical, not atemporal,
both in the life of the individual and for groups. In her essay on
contemporary Web sites that operate through a model of collective
feeling or experience (the Aryan Nations Web site presenting white
supremacy as a form of love rather than hate...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
Published: 01 May 2020
... identity is linked to pleasure and entertainment, but it is also deeply marked by its nationalist loyalty not just to state practices but also to the white racial state s ethos of exceptionalism and supremacy. In this way, all these films and series picnick- ing on Islamophobia organizes brown bodies...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (3 (90)): 61–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., and
making official practices consistent with ‘the American creed,’
reparation makes us rethink what drove racial domination in the
United States. It underscores that white supremacy did not arise
from ignorance or personal antipathies, but from the pursuit of
wealth, power, land, tobacco, sugar...
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., such as Guitar Player, than in
female-oriented magazines, like Rockrgrl. More disturbingly,
most of Daisy Rock’s featured artists have been white females
(the majority of whom are bleached blondes), a practice that
reproduces an ideology of white supremacy in rock culture...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
Published: 01 December 2012
... as a response to the partiality of the community that the
lm creates — one peopled primarily, though not exclusively, by
white, able- bodied, dyke couples.” And, to be clear, although the
new queer media work discussed in this article critically reimag-
ines s cultural feminism as a formation that can...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 78–116.
Published: 01 January 1988
... predecessors." Those changes
reflect more than the differences between television and radio as media:
they illuminate as well significant transformations in U.S. society during
the 1950s, and they underscore the important role played by television in
explaining and legitimizing...
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