'Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood'
| Autor: | Karla F. C. Holloway |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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| Zdroj: | Meridians. 7:1-18 |
| ISSN: | 1547-8424 1536-6936 |
| Popis: | In the summer of 2005, the U.S. media's obsession with the disappearance of white women and girls reached an intensity that provoked a backlash. Where were the ethnic others in these captivating late-night, early-morning, special, and breaking-news news stories? This essay explores a paradox of white racial disappearing as it is reported with vigor in the media and as it is absented from academic feminist study. It situates this paradox in an inquiry about the consequence of this absence at the same moment that U.S. feminist studies goes looking for transnational bodies while local body-politics are underinterrogated, and while science studies focus us on intimate matters of being human that ultimately and deeply implicate race and gender. To illustrate this paradox of positionality, I discuss the adoption of Asian babies by U.S. white women and how the academic attention to the transnational spaces of these adoptions displaces attention to matters of local color and gender. |
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