Racist Violations and Racializing Apologia in a Post-Racism Era

New Media, Old Racisms: Twitter, Miss America, and Cultural Logics of Race

“…"old") racial logics and racist discourse in spite of popular claims to "color-blindness" and "post-racialism." This analysis lends support to scholars who argue that racist violations persist, belying pronouncements of a shift to "color-blind" or "post-racial" ideology (e.g., Cresswell, Whitehead, & Durrheim, 2014;Holling et al, 2014;Klein, 2012). While positioned as aberrant in the broader culture, such forms of racist expression demand continued critical attention precisely because they form the foil and justification for the purportedly "post-racial" era.…”

“…Does that matter? On the one hand, the intention of the Twitter users is irrelevant to the impact of the tweets because, whether intending to or not, they represented "racist violations" that enacted old forms of racism and upheld white supremacy (Holling et al, 2014). On the other hand, the difficulty in determining whether or not the tweets were "meant" to be racist is precisely the point.…”

“…Davuluri's win was not only seen as a significant event in the history of the Miss America Pageant, but it also generated attention because it caused a substantial amount of racist discourse on Twitter. These "racist violations" (Holling et al, 2014) created an ensuing backlash that attempted to reassert the predominance of "color-blind" norms about race in the public sphere. We are particularly interested in this Twitter controversy as a case study of the ways that social media shape logics of race and racism in "vernacular" expression (see Howard, 2008).…”

Motives and legacies behind 2008-2009 Hungarian Roma murders and apologies

“…The call for awareness and educating ourselves about the past seems empty because, as this statement shows, the speaker is unaware of the Hungarian history that positions Roma as either victims or unrecognized citizens. This phenomena is what Holling et al (2014) call 'latent whiteness' in apologies following white racist crimes. These made the official apology not only limited but insufficient.…”

A Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication

“…1 Of concern are the varied repercussions stemming from such beliefs that recent scholarship examines (i.e., Milazzo in this issue; Holling et al, 2014).…”