The fungibility of intersectionality: an Afropessimist reading

Bilge, Sirma

doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1740289

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“…Afropessimism does not comprise one unified theory, but scholars have organized its genealogy into two official versions characterized as 1.0 and 2.0 (Thomas, 2018). Although they are not normally presented as having a shared genealogy, I follow several Black feminist theorist's efforts to think about them together (see Wekker, 2021 and Bilge, 2020 for exceptions). It is beyond the scope of this article to perform a full excavation to fully sketch out both versions and the tensions within them, but two claims require explication because their resolution illuminates the cosmological terrain for my analysis of racial antimatter in the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Racial Spectacles Structural Gaslight...mentioning

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The data will not save us: Afropessimism and racial antimatter in the COVID-19 pandemic

Hatch

2022

Big Data & Society

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The Trump Administration's governance of COVID-19 racial health disparities data has become a key front in the viral war against the pandemic and racial health injustice. In this paper, I analyze how the COVID-19 pandemic joins an already ongoing racial spectacle and system of structural gaslighting organized around “racial health disparities” in the United States and globally. The field of racial health disparities has yet to question the domain assumptions that uphold its field of investigation; as a result, the entire reform program called for by racial health disparities science is already featured on the menu of the white supremacist power structure. The societal infrastructure that produces scientific knowledge about patterns of health and disease in the human population needs to confront its structural position as part of the racial spectacle organized around racial health disparities in the United States. This paper offers an interpretation of racial antimatter to explain why the data will not save us in the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on articulations of racial spectacle and structural gaslighting within critical race theory and Afropessimist thought. By positioning events in the COVID-19 pandemic together within the same racially speculative frame, I show how the collection of racial health disparities data came up against white supremacists’ political ambitions in a time-space where the demand for human life to matter and the iterative regeneration of racial antimatter collided. This paper highlights the need for ongoing analysis of the unfolding and future spectacles organized around racial health disparities.

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The data will not save us: Afropessimism and racial antimatter in the COVID-19 pandemic

Hatch

2022

Big Data & Society

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“…To discuss Black Livingness, we must first engage a brief discussion of Afro Pessimism and Anti-Blackness, as the former is a direct response to the latter two. Theorists of Afro Pessimism contend that the existence of Black folks in the USA will forever be marred by the period of US enslavement (Bilge, 2020;Hartman, 1997;Sexton, 2016). Because this country was built on the vicious genocide of Indigenous people and the brutal forced labor of enslaved Africans, the history of the USA set the precedent for Black people to be perceived as distinctively non-human (Douglass et al, 2018) and thus to be the recipients of seemingly justifiable neglect, surveillance and violence (Warren and Coles, 2020).…”

Section: Anti-blackness and Black Students' Creative Sufferingmentioning

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Toward a pedagogy of Black livingness: Black students’ creative multimodal renderings of resistance to anti-Blackness

Griffin¹,

Turner

2021

ETPC

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Purpose Historically, literacy education and research have been dominated by white supremacist narratives that marginalize and deficitize the literate practices of Black students. As anti-Blackness proliferates in US schools, Black youth suffer social, psychological, intellectual, and physical traumas. Despite relentless attacks of anti-Blackness, Black youth fight valiantly through a range of creative outlets, including multimodal compositions, that enable them to move beyond negative stereotypes, maintain their creativity, and manifest the present and future lives they desire and so deeply deserve. Design/methodology/approach This study aims to answer the question “How do Black students' multimodal renderings demonstrate creativity and love in ways that disrupt anti-Blackness?” The authors critically examine four multimodal compositions created by Black elementary and middle school students to understand how Black youth author a more racially just society and envision self-determined, joyful futures. The authors take up Black Livingness as a theoretical framework and use visual methodologies to analyze themes of Black life, love and hope in the young people’s multimodal renderings. Findings The findings suggest that Black youth creatively compose multimodal renderings that are humanizing, allowing their thoughts, feelings and experiences to guide their critiques of the present world and envision new personal and societal futures. The authors conclude with a theorization of a Black Livingness Pedagogy that centers care for Black youth. Originality/value Recognizing that “the creation and use of images [is] a practice of decolonizing methodology” (Brown, 2013, loc. 2323), the authors examine Black student-created multimodal compositional practices to understand how Black youth author a more racially just society and envision self-determined, joyful futures.

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“…Afro‐pessimist theorizations of Anti‐Blackness have been critiqued (Bilge, 2020; Thomas, 2018; Warren, 2017; Wekker, 2021). For one, some critics argue that Afro‐pessimism obscures the intersections of gender with race and other pertinent social categories and structures (see e.g., Wekker, 2021).…”

Section: Gendered Anti‐blacknessmentioning

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Global gendered anti‐Black belonging and racial ideology

Curington

Bailey-Hall²

2021

Sociology Compass

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We review theorizations of gendered anti-Blackness and the scholarship on the politics of belonging. Bridging together this literature, we propose gendered anti-Black non-belonging as an alternative framework for addressing African descendant women's expressions and realities of belonging in the United States and Portugal. We select these two cases for their remarkably distinct-yet related-racial ideologies of the state. In the United States, colorblindness is the main ideology of the state whereas in Portugal anti-racial ideology pervades. As we will highlight, the experiences of belonging among African descendant women in the United States and Portugal challenge the veracity of these racial ideologies which work to render gendered anti-Black oppression invisible. In both cases, anti-Black non-belonging means that African descendant women are vulnerable to gendered state violence and racist practices impacting their individual and group belonging; as a result, the right for Black bodies to be in a particular place and space is constantly contested, and, often, violently regulated and disciplined. Yet, anti-Black belonging is both a matter of oppression and resistance. African-descendant women draw from their everyday knowledge of domination to employ resistance. In doing so, as we will argue, they rewrite the national narrative of race, gender and belonging in Portugal and the United States.

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The fungibility of intersectionality: an Afropessimist reading

Cited by 48 publications

References 40 publications

The data will not save us: Afropessimism and racial antimatter in the COVID-19 pandemic

The data will not save us: Afropessimism and racial antimatter in the COVID-19 pandemic

Toward a pedagogy of Black livingness: Black students’ creative multimodal renderings of resistance to anti-Blackness

Global gendered anti‐Black belonging and racial ideology

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