Gobineau, Racism, and Legitimism: A Royalist Heretic in Nineteenth-Century France

Kale, Steven

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“…An influential example of such a classification is John Beddoe's 'The Races of Man', which presents a depiction of the different human races, with Europeans regarded as the 'most intelligent' and African people as on a 'lower evolutionary scale' (Sturken and Cartwright 2009). A similar argument is made in Arthur de Gobineau's essay 'An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Race', which argued that the European race was 'supreme' (Kale 2010).…”

Section: The Classification Of the Black Bodymentioning

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‘Kodak Shirley is the Norm’: On Racism and Photography

Wevers¹

2016

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities

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This article aims to investigate to what extent photography can be considered racist in relation to the color photography of the 1950s. By focusing on the Polaroid ID-2 camera and the Kodak Shirley cards that were used by photographers in the 1950s, this article shows how the color photography of the 1950s was connected to a normativity of 'whiteness'. By the use of Foucault's concept of 'biopower', I will show how the South African government used the Polaroid ID-2 camera for 'Pass Books' by which a system of racial segregation was maintained. On a more abstract level, I will show by the use of two case studies that early color photography can be placed in a context of mediations of the racialized body, in which the black body has a long history of being classified. This raises questions about the myth of the photographic truth and the objectivity of technology, which I will address in this article. I will conclude that photography as a medium is influenced by the discourse of society and is at the same time able to influence this discourse itself. This makes it possible to understand how photography can be considered racist.

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Section: The Classification Of the Black Bodymentioning

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‘Kodak Shirley is the Norm’: On Racism and Photography

Wevers¹

2016

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities

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“…academics have rigorously undertaken this previously (Kale, 2010;Burnnet & Hutza, 2008;Sabine, 1998). However, the scope of this research allows reference to this book in order to mark what it is not about.…”

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Archaeology of colonisation: A critical voyage from the Caribbean to Australia

Rivera¹

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This research is a historical-theoretical examination of how colonisation was operationalised in Queensland, Australia. It argues that colonisation was constituted as a form of government that had two constitutive dimensions: one metaphysical framed by aesthetic judgement and one technico-political framed by administrative functionality. The mapping of both dimensions provides a more accurate description of the operationalisation of colonisation.This research applies a Foucauldian archaeology to the ongoing process of colonisation, and its findings are outlined in two parts. The first part discusses the global origins of how the colonial West first aesthetically conceptualised aboriginality and blackness in the Caribbean, and the second part discusses how this conceptualisation was wielded locally in Queensland through the administrative design of the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897(1897 Act). Foucauldian archaeology is understood as a historical engagement with the origins of a given notion, concept, or praxis, and with its relationship to forms of governance (Agamben, 2009;Deleuze, 1985;Foucault, 1974). totalisation, multiplicity, and the creation of desire. Thus, the 1897 Act through its Blanket Approach imposes Western colonial conceptualisations of aboriginality and blackness through its totalising effect on the possible relationships between colonial subjects and the state, is distributed through a multiplicity of functions, and creates the conditions for a tailored relationship in the space of subjectivity.Lastly, this research concludes that the two-fold operation that I describe links the local governance processes with global historical conceptualisations through a conceptualist movement, which is an administrative non-political movement whose concern, in the manner of conceptualist art, is with the appearance of things or of relationships in the world rather than with their substance. This conceptualist movement as a form of power aids colonisation as a localised form of governance. In this sense, colonisation is understood not only as a local process, or only as global machinery, but also as machinery that simultaneously operates micropolitically and macropolitically.

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Gobineau, Joseph‐Arthur, Comte de (1816–82)

Muhs¹

2014

The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

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Comte Joseph‐Arthur de Gobineau (1816–82), has been called the “father of racist ideology,” and while this is a somewhat reductionist description for a man of many facets and talents, it neatly encapsulates his main contribution to the history of political thought. An early and easy familiarity with German was later complemented by a passion for the languages and cultures of the Orient. A devoted Catholic and demonstrative Legitimist (a supporter of the Bourbon dynasty's claim to the French throne) who forever remained embarrassed that he had been born on the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, Gobineau quickly established his credentials as a reactionary after settling in Paris in 1835. Supplementing his income as a lowly clerk with political journalism and a stream of eclectic literary output, his mind was preoccupied with a sense of what he perceived as the decadence of the present and especially the decline of true aristocracy.

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Gobineau, Racism, and Legitimism: A Royalist Heretic in Nineteenth-Century France

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

‘Kodak Shirley is the Norm’: On Racism and Photography

‘Kodak Shirley is the Norm’: On Racism and Photography

Archaeology of colonisation: A critical voyage from the Caribbean to Australia

Gobineau, Joseph‐Arthur, Comte de (1816–82)

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