| Popis: |
Chapter 1 begins with an examination of a series of racist celebrity tirades by actor Mel Gibson, comedian Michael Richards, and WWE Wrestling and reality television star Hulk Hogan. I argue that these three racist events restage the primal scene of U.S. colonialism, or the racist psychosexual dynamics of the nation’s origins. Rather than unmask and indict overt racism, the wide circulation of such outbursts does the work of postracial culture by staging an encounter with lack but with significant distance between hearing and understanding of the primal scene of U.S. racism. This chapter illustrates how racist irruptions of sustain anxiety over and fascination with miscegenation as a threat to white purity. |
