“White supremacy in heels”: (white) feminism, white supremacy, and discursive violence

Moon, Dreama G.; Holling, Michelle A.

doi:10.1080/14791420.2020.1770819

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“…This framing exemplifies governance feminism, where ‘violence against women’ rhetoric is deployed to bolster and mesh with state concerns with public order, national borders and terrorism. The framing also ‘follow[s] a long history of [mostly] white women invoking state violence against men of color’ (Moon and Holling, 2020: 256).…”

Section: Overlapping Interpretive Approaches and Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap

Khan

2021

Theoretical Criminology

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This article draws on governance theory, critical theory and cultural criminology to interrogate how legal, social scientific and feminist discourses converge to construct rap music as a pressing social problem. While each discourse has its own preoccupations, ideologies and internal contestation, the overarching message is that rap music is a potential source of danger that conveys anti-social attitudes. Suspicion is sometimes also cast on musicians themselves. While I compare three overlapping fields, the ultimate purpose is to problematize the supposedly progressive approach to interpreting and mobilizing against songs deemed harmful. Significantly, I argue that much of the social science scholarship and feminist activism that addresses hip hop music perpetuates anti-Black stereotypes and dovetails with repressive state apparatuses. Among other things, social science and feminist criticism of rap hermeneutically support the use of rap lyrics as evidence of criminality—a distinctly non-progressive, racialized legal practice.

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Section: Overlapping Interpretive Approaches and Effectsmentioning

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A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap

Khan

2021

Theoretical Criminology

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“…Similarly, Madison (2008) explained how recentering of the body in Intercultural Communication work is all too often done without ethical reflective and reflexive attention to the politics of power present on/through bodies. For example, Moon and Holling (2020), call out the way feminism reinserts the supremacy of whiteness. However, their piece is missing an interrogation of embodied politics.…”

Section: (Re)locating the Body In Intercultural Communicationmentioning

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The Troubled Past, Present Disjuncture, and Possible Futures: Intercultural Performance Communication

McIntosh

Eguchi

2020

Journal of Intercultural Communication Research

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The special issue on Performance Studies in Intercultural Communication research returns to the questions and critiques of scholarly validation to carve or (re)carve a space for Performance scholarship within Intercultural Communication. More specifically, this introductory piece explores why Performance Studies methods are stigmatized in Intercultural Communication research and makes the case for the sub-area of Intercultural Performance Studies in Communication. The performative turn in studying culture brought scholars back to the body as a central mode for research, of research, by researchers. What embodied research provides Intercultural Communication is a return to an ethical approach to studying culture through reflexivity and critical interrogations of power. We finish with a presentation of the contributors included in this special issue. The goal of this introductory piece is to contextualize the conversation that manifests a homeplace (hooks, 1990) for the academic homeless.

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“…It is heard in the voices of Black, Indigenous, and Feminists of Color who describe white feminists with Ariadne’s actions: She thrives “upon the pain of others” (Griffin, 2012, p. 151), seeks her own advantage and works to suppress the threat of radical change the Minotaur would bring upon escape. She uses tears to prioritize her own wounding, positions herself as the victim (Calafell, 2012; Moon & Holling, 2020) and sacrifices her half-sibling whom she does not see as fully human (Calafell, 2015; Hill Collins, 1986; Moon & Holling, 2020).…”

Section: White Sensibilitiesmentioning

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“…If racism is an asymptomatic illness, then no white feminist can profess their health. Doing so creates white toxicity and perpetuates racial and gendered violence (Mack & Na’puti, 2019; Moon & Holling, 2020).…”

Section: White Sensibilitiesmentioning

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“…This is also a cautionary tale for white feminists feeling loss and lost in the wounds of racism, told by a white feminist with blood on her hands. White feminism “has historically failed” (Moon & Holling, 2020). Heeding the words of Black, Indigenous, and Feminists of Color, white feminists should not respond with Ariadne’s sobbing victimage or Theseus’ heroic violence.…”

Section: The Presencementioning

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Colonizing cuts of labyrinth mythology, a tangling parable of white sensibilities

Keeling

2020

Communication and the Public

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This article demonstrates the way wounds, and affects generally, are figured by the writing of history. It traces patterns of thinking about the labyrinth primarily in histories, theories, and myths of the past 150 years to demonstrate how the labyrinth has been cut by colonization. From the Mycenaean colonization of Indigenous Cretans (inaccurately named “Minoans”) to the emergence of white feminism and its present day practice, figures of the labyrinth iteratively cut history to perpetuate the un/common loss of colonized communities and to enact white racist sensibilities of exclusion. Entangling Karen Barad’s cutting together-apart and Kent Ono’s colonial amnesia, colonizing cuts are constitutive exclusions that wound and exclude colonized communities from history and world making.

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“White supremacy in heels”: (white) feminism, white supremacy, and discursive violence

Cited by 57 publications

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A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap

A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap

The Troubled Past, Present Disjuncture, and Possible Futures: Intercultural Performance Communication

Colonizing cuts of labyrinth mythology, a tangling parable of white sensibilities

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