... race and racism in the United States. Exploring the emergence of Holocaust references in US public culture following Barack Obama’s election, this article proposes that the analogy gains its efficacy because the Americanization of the Holocaust articulates the relationship between institutional...

... aspirations of economic status and cultural belonging, and many of their children, who may face racism during the course of their upbringing and schooling, find alternative introductions to racial difference in the circulation of black culture. The conflicts between the way race is lived and experienced...

... sentiment alongside the creation of a community of fans to embody it. One musician noted how RAR educated him about racism in Britain: “We had no idea about race and racism – what we learned, we came to know through the music” (interview with RAR musician). Billy Bragg was nineteen when he went to his first...

..., and Environmental Racism in Canada . Lanham, MA : Lexington Books . McClanahan Annie . 2016 . Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Mills Charles . 2007 . “ White Ignorance .” In Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance...

...Irving Goh Abstract While we disavow or renounce the virus that is ourselves in viral cultures such as a pandemic or systemic racism, we envy the viral force of others who are trending on social media. In viral cultures, we tend to think that virus is other people, forgetting our own viral...

... on the racial transgressions of jazz pleasures. In telling this story, I further develop contemporary scholarship on the concept of racialized heteronationalism as nascent in surveillance and the state, as well as demonstrate the long history of US enforcement agencies’ reliance upon race and sexuality...

... for racism. Indeed, its silence about race and racial hierarchies makes a political response to racism virtually impossible. Season 1 of Westworld might very well represent the last gasp of the discourse of the postracial in the cultural arena. I suspect that by the time season 2 airs...

.... He looks at the ideologies behind the policies, and explores how issues of race and religion, alongside cultural theories of socialism, Marxism, and nationalism, have impacted on cultural policy. After a chronological overview of cultural changes from the 1950s onward, Moore turns his attention...

... “racial types,” the logic of modernity was also the logic of racism, and worked to assign non-Europeans certain “race-typical” forms of expression. Thus, for example, although Morton’s skull measurements of Native Americans did not spell out any correlating facial expressions, his “discovery...

... in this country form a colony, and it is not in the interest of the colonial power to liberate them. Black people are legal citizens of the United States with, for the most part, the same legal status as other citizens. Yet they stand as colonial subjects in relation to white society. Thus institutional racism...

...,” as Basckin (1988) professes, culture in itself takes on a role of immense import in constructing/maintaining, deconstructing/rebuilding human ecosystems – a determinedly dialectic process. As Eagleton sees it, the innovative forces which permit the human race to manage its environment, stamp out illness...

.... cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/youthandmedia/kinderbraverworld . Rose Tricia 2008 . The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop—And Why It Matters . New York : Basic Civitas . Tilton Jennifer 2010 . Dangerous or Endangered? Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America...

... I dared to verbalize my hurt and frustration about micro aggressive acts of racism I’d experienced were not real. If they’d truly been listening, they would have gathered enough breadcrumbs to lead them out of their naiveté. I was slipping into apathy by the time of the inauguration. What was once...

... the politics of cool intersects with race and gender. The article considers the epistemology of “cool” across different consumer media. The music video, This Is America , it is argued, resists easy classification but expands the concept of and jouissance of ‘cool’ so that violence too becomes a kind...

... together in the visual construction of Western binary gender reveals the racism inherent in the conception of US femininity. The inability to quickly assign a gender to ALOK's image highlights the essentialist and racist ways that culturally specific ideas about gender and race are ascribed to aesthetics...

... vantage points on stories we thought we already knew” (31). The chapter on African American authors living in Paris midcentury, where they witnessed police violence and rampant racism against North Africans, brings forth the complexity in reconciling “a color-blind and a colonial Paris” (65...

... . 1983 . “ Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights .” In Women, Race, and Class , 202 – 21 . New York : Vintage . Davis Angela . 2003 . Are Prisons Obsolete? New York : Seven Stories . D'Harlingue Benjamin . 2010 . “ Specters of the U.S. Prison Regime: Haunting...

... of capitalism, Soviet-style communism, colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and racism—were all but erased. These caricatures of 1968, rehearsed with each anniversary, have come to overtake what the long 1960s actually signify: nearly two decades of struggle that transformed the postwar global order...

..., On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness From the viewpoint of racism, there is no exterior, there are no people on the outside. There are only people who should be like us and whose crime it is not to be. — Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus It cannot be a coincidence that the 2006 film...

... the exclusion or unacknowledged appropriation of Indigenous knowledges within Western theoretical currents; the frequent neglect of questions of race, gender, and (dis)ability in shaping human and other-than-human lifeworlds; and the erasure of colonialism and its afterlives in the constitution of what counts...