Philosophy of Race and Racism
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White Supremacist: An Imagery of Anti-Blackness and Racism
Problem statement:
White Supremacy is a long overdue hauled pervasive issue from post-colonialism in modern American society through social constructivism of systemic power and dominance. White Supremacy hits daily headlines in the U.S in the current heated cascade of politics, social injustices and inequality, and brutal Black shootings.
Thesis statement:
As noted by Friedrick George, White Supremacy perpetrates anti-Blackness with great visible reliance on blackness bodily radicalized imagery to justify brutality and violence by police and White extremist; claiming Blackness as a perceived menace in countenance in terms of privilege protection exemplified by systematic institutions often negating equality and justice for Blackness for their own existence.
Research Objectives:
For the thesis analysis, I will be critically examining the film exposition, “I am not your negro” whispered by James Baldwin (Peck, 2016). I find the film fallacious and antagonist characters helpful to explore the stark reality of Blackness’s existence within and through White Supremacy. Also, analyze themes such as constructed racialization of violence, democracy, meritocracy, and colonialism. Further, I will intrigue the violent experiences of black killings in streets; for example, George Fly odd compared to the Whiteness fantasy that Black people. Then, I will offer an ongoing discussion on this subversively narrative of Blackness hatred by Whiteness self-cleansing of as an innocent victim in reverential to Whiteness Neo-Nazis (Dei et al. 2004). This pretext will support a psychological brutal tool exploration to silence the Blackness stories of social injustice and inequality masqueraded in White national discourse fantasy observable in media (Denis & Humez, 2015). Besides, I will be elaborating on how knowledge production is a politicized technique such as “black and blackness in fashion” narrative exemplified as the controller, re-constructor in the suburbs in Ghetto by White Supremacist though stressed by Dawson & Katzenstein (2019) in Shelby’s “Dark Ghettos.” And finally, I will focus on Blackness construction and reified by White nationalist knowledge and discursive exaltation through the lens of race and anti-racism theory to show anti-Blackness and Whiteness as racialization in the political realm.
References
Baldwin, J., & Peck, R. (2017). I am not your Negro: A major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck. Vintage.
Dawson, M. C., & Katzenstein, E. A. (2019). Survey Article: Articulated Darkness: White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Capitalism in Shelby’s Dark Ghettos. Journal of Political Philosophy, 27(2), 252-268.
Dei, G. J. S., Karumanchery, L. L., Karumanchery, N., & Luik, N. K. (2004). Playing the race card: Exposing white power and privilege (Vol. 244). Peter Lang.
Denis, G., & Humez, J. (2015). Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader.
Fredrickson, G. M. (2015). Racism: A short history. Princeton University Press.
Shelby, T. (2005). We who are dark: The philosophical foundations of black solidarity. Harvard University Press.