VOLUME 3(1) • 2015
EDITORIAL: DEMOCRATIC CONSCIENCE VERSUS THE MADNESS OF FANATICAL TERRORISM
ABSTRACT. Terrorist violence is not religious because it destroys all bonds. Obscurantists who have turned into robots treat others as mere things and seek to spread fear and promote discord and stigmatization in order to generate disorder. The unifying strength of democracy lies in pluralism, diver..
INTRODUCTION: OF EMBODIMENT AND RACIALIZATION
ABSTRACT. In this special issue of Knowledge Cultures my objective is to engage the question of race or racialization through the prism of embodiment. This approach to questions of embodiment and racialization is what I refer to as the “density project” vis-à-vis race. By density (from Latin, densus..
PHENOMENOLOGY OF RACIAL OPPRESSION
ABSTRACT. This paper attempts to further understand the lived experiences of racial oppression by bringing together personal testimonies, resources from phenomenology, and empirical work on stereotype threat. Integrating these three areas provides a psychological, existential, physiological, and emb..
THE AFFECTIVE FORCES OF RACIALIZATION: AFFECTS AND BODY SCHEMAS IN FANON AND LORDE
ABSTRACT. Frantz Fanon’s critical adaptation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the body schema to describe the operations of colonial racism and the lived experience of racialization are well known. Less widely remarked upon is the role of affect in Fanon’s account of racialization in Black Skin,..
EMBODYING A “NEW” COLOR LINE: RACISM, ANTI-IMMIGRANT SENTIMENT AND RACIAL IDENTITIES IN THE “POSTRACIAL” ERA
ABSTRACT. This essay explores the intersection of racism, racial embodiment theory and the recent hostility aimed at immigrants and foreigners in the United States, especially the targeting of people of Latin American descent and Latino/as. Anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiment is racist. It i..
GIVING THEM SOMETHING THEY CAN FEEL: ON THE STRATEGY OF SCIENTIZING THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RACE AND RACISM
ABSTRACT. There is an expansion of empirical research that at its core is an attempt to quantify the “feely” aspects of living in raced (and other stigmatized) bodies. This research is offered as part concession, part insistence on the reality of the “special” circumstances of living in raced bodies..
FINDING BIGGER IN SOMETHING BIGGER
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I examine the (socio)ontological-epistemological setup that enabled Richard Wright, through Native Son, to reveal truths about race as a lived, social phenomenon in our world. Relying upon Wright’s own description of how he conceived Bigger Thomas (given in “How Bigger Was B..