“All our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015) One of the more notorious
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Digitizing the Western Gaze
The End FGM Guardian Global Media Campaign
Jessica Cammaert
to divide, rather than unite, transecting as is often the case, existing ethnic, and class divisions (Cammaert forthcoming). And this is precisely what makes End FGM problematic—the allusion/ illusion that regardless of race, religion, class or any
Dan Flory
This article modifies philosopher Tamar Szabó Gendler's theory of imaginative resistance in order to make it applicable to film and analyze a distinctively adverse kind of resistant response to James Cameron's Avatar (2009). Gendler's theory, as she states it, seeks to explain resistance to literary stories in a straightforwardly cognitivist, but narrowly rationalistic fashion. This article introduces elements from recent work at the intersection of philosophy of film and the emotions to augment Gendler's theory so that it can be used to explain why some viewers hesitate or even refuse to imagine some cinematic fictional worlds. The method used is analytic philosophy of film. The analysis reveals that some viewers are cognitively impoverished with regard to imagining race in general: they will likely have extreme difficulty in centrally imagining racially "other" characters, which also bodes ill for their real-world prospects for moral engagements concerning race.
Groped and Gutted
Hollywood's Hegemonic Reimagining of Counterculture
Samantha Eddy
's commitment to white-male authority. Molina-Guzman finds that Hollywood productions can be consumed by mixed-gender and mixed-race audiences for the purposes of maximum profit. Yet ultimately, the white-male imagination behind the screen leads to the
Scenes of Subjection
Slavery, the Black Female Body, and the Uses of Sexual Violence in Haile Gerima's Sankofa
Z'étoile Imma
and disruptive, in Sankofa sexual violence is shaped as a dehumanizing experience, a site of subjection, and yet nonetheless a motivation for enslaved Black women to imagine a life beyond the race/gender supremacy and sexual political economies that
Jacob Breslow, Jonathan A. Allan, Gregory Wolfman, and Clifton Evers
Miriam J. Abelson. Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), 264 pp. ISBN: 9781517903510. Paperback, $25. Beginning with the deceptively simple premise that trans
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- Book Review
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“The Dragon Can't Roar”
Analysis of British Expatriate Masculinity in Yusuf Dawood's One Life Too Many
Antony Mukasa Mate
their race. British women were objectified; men used them to affirm their virility. Their denigration of women contradicted Franz Fanon's postulation that the bodies of white women symbolize “white civilization and dignity” ( 1967: 63 ). The public
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- Research Article
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- 33–46 (14 total)
Introduction
On a 1st Anniversary
Jonathan A. Allan, Chris Haywood, and Frank G. Karioris
making. During our first year, we published eight articles, a strong set of book reviews, and a tribute to a colleague who is deeply missed. The articles have examined issues related to aging, migration, race, and queerness—doing so in contexts from
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Introduction
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India Halstead
to walk with their legs joined by strips of magnets, recalling a childhood three-legged-race: the magnets repeatedly come apart, clacking together loudly in an otherwise silent room, their conjoined bodies hobbling across the floor. The effect of this
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 31–59 (29 total)
Tru Leverette and Barbara Mennel
Zélie Asava. Mixed Race Cinemas: Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (New York Bloomsbury, 2017). 216 pp., ISBN: 1501312456 (paperback: $35.96) Reviewed by Tru Leverette On the cusp of the twenty-first century, Danzy Senna