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  • Notes On A Theory Of Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, aka MRWaSP

    Notes On A Theory Of Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, aka MRWaSP it’s her factory: pop culture and philosophy from a critical-race feminist perspective. 2013-11-29 Robin James, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Women’s & Gender Studies University of North Carolina, Charlotte Multi-Racial White Supremacist Patriarchy, or MRWaSP, is my term for early 21st-century globalized Western race/gender/sexuality/capitalist…

  • The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race

    The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race Hypatia Volume 25, Issue 4 (Fall, 2010) pages 875-890 DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01121.x Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Philosophers have little to lose in making practical proposals. If the proposals are enacted, the power of ideas to change the world is affirmed. If the proposals are rejected, there is…

  • The Duty to Miscegenate

    In ‘The duty to miscegenate’, I harness John Stuart Mill’s 19th century theory of social freedom to explain and to dismantle contemporary racialised and gendered injustice. In the first chapter—Social stigmatisation: ‘a social tyranny’—I argue that persons racialised-and-gendered-as-black-women were, in the past, unjustly stigmatised by legal penalties against ‘miscegenation’ and are still, today, unjustly stigmatised…

  • Irish and white-ish mixed “race” identity and the scopic regime of whiteness

    Irish and white-ish mixed “race” identity and the scopic regime of whiteness Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 27, Issue 4, October–November 2004 pages 385-396 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2004.10.007 Angeline D. Morrison Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom When speaking about the paradoxical “invisibility” of whiteness, I am referring in particular to Richard Dyer’s project to…

  • Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race—in Theory

    Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race—in Theory Chapter in: Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age Rowman & Littlefield 288 pages August 1997 Size: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8476-8447-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-20172-6 pages 51-71 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute for the…

  • Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader

    This comprehensive and timely reader covers the range of topics that have been at the center of these debates including critical race theory, multiracial feminism, mixed race, whiteness, citizenship and globalization.

  • Walking While Black in the ‘White Gaze’

    Walking While Black in the ‘White Gaze’ The New York Times 2013-09-01 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Man, I almost blew you away!” Those were the terrifying words of a white police officer — one of those who policed black bodies in low income areas in North Philadelphia in the late…

  • Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House

    I want to begin my talk with a quote from the late poet Audre Lorde: “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” was asked to speak today about anti-essentialism and intersectionality. I am glad to do so, for I believe both concepts are indispensable tools for dismantling the master’s house.

  • The Stuart Hall Project (2013) (John Akomfrah – Smoking Dogs Films)

    The Stuart Hall Project (2013) (John Akomfrah – Smoking Dogs Films) darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture General Issue 10 (2013-07-18) ISSN: 2041-3254 Dhanveer Singh Brar “With deepest gratitude and respect” – If there is a moment when the pieces of Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project fall into place, it is with this closing note.…

  • imagining hybrid cities

    imagining hybrid cities The State 2013-07-25 Tiana Reid I started this series on crossing and mixing by considering temporality and its hold on how we imagine hybridity. The recent discourse centered on the unshakable ‘browning’ or ‘beiging’ of mostly urban populations in the decades to come offers itself up through the prevailing ‘hybrid futures’ narrative.…