How It Feels to Be without a Face: Race and the Reorientation of Sympathy in the 1890s

Hiro, Molly

doi:10.1215/ddnov.039020179

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2006

DOI: 10.1215/ddnov.039020179

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How It Feels to Be without a Face: Race and the Reorientation of Sympathy in the 1890s

Molly Hiro¹

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Mothers] have the charge of immortal beings, whose physical, mental, and moral temperament, are for a long period, exclusively in their hands. Nothing save the fin ger of God has written on the tablet, when it is committed to them. It is impor tant that they secure time to form deep and lasting impressions. lydia howard sigourney, Letters to Mothers (1838) The task before us [at Carlisle Indian Industrial School] was not only that of accepting new ideas and adopting new manners, but actual physical changes and discomfort had to be borne uncomplainingly until the body adjusted itself to new tastes and habits. luther standing bear, Land of the Spotted Ea gle (1933) In the long, hot month of August 2015, a meme circulated on social media affirming that, contrary to recent events, "Black lives > white feelings. " Police shot and killed sixty-one African Americans that summer with impunity. These murders were sometimes captured in videos that themselves became viral, merging vio lence and spectacle in a manner uncomfortably reminiscent of the popularity of lynching postcards a century prior. Meanwhile, the Black Lives Matter movement began directly challenging 2016 presidential hopefuls in the midst of public speeches to elucidate their commitment to racial justice. The media widely accused movement participants of incivility and jeopardizing democracy. Activists responded in part by further theorizing whiteness studies scholar Robin DiAngelo's notion of white fragility, an affective state that can result from lifelong protection from race-based stress: when such protection momentarily recedes from those who have enjoyed it, they can erupt in highly defensive be hav ior and outbursts of anger and rage. 1 The "Black

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How It Feels to Be without a Face: Race and the Reorientation of Sympathy in the 1890s

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