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Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics

Rebecca Wanzo
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592565
Published: 01 September 2016
... in a downsized economy, but discourse about US women’s precarity often reflects progress and failure simultaneously.14 The discourse about precari- ous white masculinity revolves around the effects of globalization and various social revolutions on men’s supremacy, and precarity for men of color (even...
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Viola Liuzzo / Heather Heyer: Mediating the Antiracist White Female Martyr

Aniko Bodroghkozy
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 31–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9787000
Published: 01 September 2022
... study suggest about how the media tends to portray white women and women of color in other social change movements? [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2022 women and white supremacy media and white supremacy Charlottesville 2017...
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Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive: White Women as the New War Hero

Moon Charania
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (1 (103)): 109–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8085135
Published: 01 May 2020
... of white supremacy, white- ness now relies on a particular ethical formation that softens the necropolitical through the performance of gendered affect. Ethical Whiteness and the Death Drive 113 Injecting Eros into Death: White Women s Ascendancy in Necro- Spaces Those are the terms . . . to throw away...
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Appear to Disappear: Blackness, Affect, and the Political Imaginary

David Stephens
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10654955
Published: 01 September 2023
...,’ as an ontological fact of blackness, positions the Black body as an abstraction upon and through which the desires, feelings and ideas of others are projected.” 3 Historically, Black people and their bodies have been objectified in service of white supremacy. This fungible quality of Blackness makes...
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Missing Dolly, Mourning Slavery: The Slave Notice as Keepsake

Rachel Hall
Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 71–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2005-009
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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By Any Other Name: Sweet Justice , Cicely Tyson, and Contemporary Visual Politics

Noliwe Rooks
Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 49–65.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-12-3_36-49
Published: 01 September 1995
... interactions with her community. While most of the tension in these movies focused on the oppression of African Americans and the fact of white supremacy, Tyson’s roles suggested that the only way to stay sane and achieve freedom was to remain firmly connected to other African Americans...
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Opening Statements: Theme Singing and Shifting Paradigms for Voicing Feminine Subjectivities as Television Music

Alyxandra Vesey
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 157–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7772431
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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Christ, Santa Claus, Doctor Deliverer: For Carolee Schneemann

Soyoung Yoon
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 175–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052914
Published: 01 September 2021
...-Demeter: The More I Give the More You Steal,” in Imaging Her Erotics , 178. 11. Arthur Jafa, “My Black Death,” in Everything but the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture , ed. Greg Tate (New York: Broadway Books, 2003), 247. 12. Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies , vol. 1...
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Histories of The Watermelon Woman : Reflexivity between Race and Gender

Catherine Zimmer
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-002
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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Her Body, Her Choice: Tough Girl Affect, Trump Support, and the 2020 Pandemic

Jenny Stümer
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278642
Published: 01 May 2023
... Coates, “The First White President.” 56. Ghassan Hage, White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (Sydney: Pluto, 1998), 20. 57. Duncan, “ ‘I Drink Liberal Tears,’ ” 518. 58. Deckman, Tea Party Women , 132. 59. Nicholas Kristof and Stuart...
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“Sometimes It Seems You’re in Another World”: Afrocentric Feminisms of the LA Rebellion

Jamie Ann Rogers
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 125–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8359552
Published: 01 September 2020
... the LA Rebellion s project of liberation more generally, especially in its increased emphasis on emancipat- ing Black women from the damaging psychic terrain produced through white supremacy and patriarchy. By focusing specifi- cally on mental and physical connections with one s own body, as well...
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They Gon’ Think You Loud Regardless: Ratchetness, Reality Television, and Black Womanhood

Kristen J. Warner
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 129–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2885475
Published: 01 May 2015
.... I do not mean to suggest that these women do not act of their own accord and agency. Yet I think that part of what went wrong in this instance is Cohen s misreading of these women s exchanges as camp and not ratchet. Cohen is a white, gay, Jewish New Yorker infamous for his camp aesthetic his late...
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Diva Traffic and Male Bonding in Film: Teaching Opera, Learning Gender, Race, and Nation

Charles I. Nero
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 47–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-2_56-47
Published: 01 September 2004
.... Likewise, the African American struggle against white supremacy provides the pivotal language for the white gay man’s natal family to express their support for him. The reasons for an alliance between the homophobic patriarch Joe Miller and the closeted careerist yuppie Andy Beck- ett...
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Female Surrogate Labor and White Corporeal Debt in Singin’ in the Rain

Anthea Kraut
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052774
Published: 01 September 2021
...Anthea Kraut Abstract This essay revisits the question of credit and debt in the celebrated 1952 film musical Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, US) to show how white women's dancing bodies participate in the “talent relocations” that the movie both thematizes and suppresses...
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White Men Aren't

Thomas DiPiero
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (3 (30)): 112–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10-3_30-112
Published: 01 May 1992
... what have become known as representations of black people, women, minorities, or the “other” in literature and movies, we never encounter similar condens- ing abstractions of white people, specifically white men, in represen- tation. As Richard Dyer points out, “Any...
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“Of la Baker, I Am a Disciple”: The Diva Politics of Reception

Jeanne Scheper
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 73–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-004
Published: 01 September 2007
...- ily, a “Rainbow Tribe” as she called them in response to white supremacy. Baker’s rainbow vision of domesticity stands in marked contrast to the domesticating marble house designed for Baker by The Diva Politics of Reception  •  85 Loos, a zebra...
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Race and the First-Person Shooter: Challenging the Video Gamer in BioShock Infinite

Diana Adesola Mafe
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 89–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3078336
Published: 01 September 2015
... in a world where white supremacy is normal and the only opportunities available to blacks involve menial labor: “Days at Comstock House was simple. Hard work, sure, but simple. Wringin’ the linens, scrubbing the floors . . . hmph, Lady Comstock, she even had a kind word, now and then. Almost...
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Not New to This: A Genealogical Approach to Black Girls’ Media Production

Ashleigh Greene Wade
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9561395
Published: 01 May 2022
... actually diminishes the validity of “Cheryl's” point. This particular strategy of name assignment (recently reprised as “Karen”), popularized by Black Twitter, functions as a counterargument or counter-position to white people (especially white women) who enact racism through certain behaviors and words...
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Discipline and Pleasure: Shirley Temple and the Spectacle of Child Loving

Kristen Hatch
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (1 (79)): 127–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1533466
Published: 01 May 2012
..., despite the shared physicality of Robinson and Temple, by Temple’s status as a child. While West titillated and shocked audiences by suggesting that she was subject to the same bodily desires as the black women whose songs and dances she appropriated, Shirley Temple reasserted white supremacy...
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Lena Horne's Impersona

Shane Vogel
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 11–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-022
Published: 01 May 2008
..., removed from stereotypical images of blackness, confounded the expectations of white audiences. By shaping her autobiography as a journey of racial awakening that culminates with her accumulated outrage at US white supremacy and her commitment to the civil rights movement, Horne ameliorates what...
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