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Racial affective economies, disalienation and ‘race made ordinary’.
- Source :
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Ethnic & Racial Studies . Dec2014, Vol. 37 Issue 13, p2475-2490. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This paper speaks against tolerance as an instrument of institutionalized anti-racism within academia where collegiality is a minimal expectation in interpersonal interactions. Through auto-ethnographic readings, the discussion focuses on the racial affective economies produced in universities as tolerance ‘makes race ordinary’. Within this reading, ‘making race ordinary’ is shown to produce unliveable lives because of its racial affective economies animated by contemptuous tolerance, disgust and disattendability. These negative affects emerge within the epistemology of ignorance produced by the racial contract and have affective and career consequences for racialized others placed outside of organizational networks. The paper argues that to destabilize the white power in networks that decide on access, tenure and promotion and to enable liveable lives within universities, the transformative potential of the transracial intimacy of friendship must be engaged. This entails ‘race made ordinary’ through disalienation-estrangement from the ‘raced’ subject positionings of the racial contract. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01419870
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 13
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Ethnic & Racial Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 98623617
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2013.821146