Tag: racial
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The lexicon arrives before the bodies do, and the European periphery operates the racial category without the inhibition the core supplies A racial category does not stay where it was made. It travels—through media, institutions, and the ordinary circulation of images and words—and it arrives in places that never operated the apparatus that produced it.…
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Introduction: Two Architectures of Exclusion Every society generates collective emotion—anxiety, resentment, humiliation, fear—and every society must find somewhere to put it. The grievance that produced the feeling may be long gone. The feeling remains. It sits there, looking for a discharge point. This is not a moral story. It is a systems story. And the…