11. Inscribing Racial Bodies and Relieving Responsibility

Between abundance and marginalization: the imperative of racial rhetorical criticism

“…58 These circulating cultural displays of race are sites through which racism-via articulations of raced bodies-is made again and anew. That is, as racial rhetorical scholars have made abundantly clear, the faces of race seemingly change while the logics of racism remain firmly entrenched.…”

Containment as Neocolonial Visual Rhetoric: Fashion, Yellowface, and Karl Lagerfeld's “Idea of China”

“…41 This gaze, which generally echoes that of the white male hero, positions the Other as the object of gaze, deprived of agency or subjectivity. 42 Shui invokes Rey Chow to reread the imperialist gaze in yellowface video games. 43 Chow reverses the familiar argument that the possessor of the gaze is the imperialist with the native positioned as the passive object of that gaze.…”

Pushing intoPrecious: Black Women, Media Representation, and the Glare of the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchal Gaze

“…Media, as a social institution that is largely White owned and controlled, has historically been and remains rooted in oppressive racial ideology (Cammarota, 2011;Chidester, 2008;Moshin & Jackson, 2011;Projansky & Ono, 1999;Watts, 2005). In this context, "Whites became the gazers, those who controlled what was seen and how it was seen," while people of color, "became the 'looked at,' not 'the lookers'" (Yancy & Ryser, 2008, p. 732).…”

“…In alignment with colorblind ideology espoused to dismiss the significance of race and racism (Bonilla-Silva, 2010), "post-" racial ideology insists that society is "beyond race" or "at least above the racial fray" (Bonilla-Silva, 2010, p. 219). Those committed to "post-" ideology as an indication of transcendence understand our current era as one in which identity is no longer a significant marker of systemic privilege or marginalization (Joseph, 2009;Moshin & Jackson, 2011;Squires et al, 2010). Troubling contemporary articulations of the "post-" as transcendent and racism as antiquated, with a mindful eye toward history, Winant (2009) offers "none of the 'posts-'-postcivil rights, post-apartheid, post-coloniality-is sufficiently 'post'; none denotes a full break with the conditions their very names contain" (p. 684).…”