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Zusatztext "Paula Ioanide's deft reading of a series of racialized spectacles explores the complex economy of fears, longings, and fantasies that structure the white public imagination. She persuasively demonstrates the need for a new framework of political analysis centered on shared affect, feelings, and desires." Informationen zum Autor Paula Ioanide is Associate Professor at the Center for the Study of Culture, Race & Ethnicity at Ithaca College. Klappentext Paula Ioanide is Associate Professor at the Center for the Study of Culture, Race & Ethnicity at Ithaca College. Zusammenfassung This book examines the role of emotion in contemporary instances of racial violence and discrimination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents and Abstracts Introduction: Facts and Evidence Don't Matter Here chapter abstract The introduction theorizes how and why emotions play a central role in fostering people's investments in oppressive institutional practices in the United States and globally. It argues that hegemonic fears, resentments, and stigmas attached to criminality, terrorism, welfare dependency, and undocumented immigration make beliefs and stereotypes about Black, Latino/a, Arab and Muslim people intransigent. Psychoanalytic and social psychological frameworks help explain how affectively charged ideologies tend to diminish people's receptivity to facts and evidence that challenge their beliefs. The introduction argues that understanding gendered racism through purely cognitive frameworks of racist intent or ignorance limits our ability to account for people's unconscious, unintentional and embodied investments in oppression. Understanding how unconscious affects structure people's ideological fantasies, identities, and political purpose increases our ability to create counter-cultures of ethical witnessing and effective antiracist feminist strategies. Part I: "Criminals" and "Terrorists": The Emotional Economies of Military-Carceral Expansion chapter abstract Part I offers a broad overview of the apparatuses that helped construct public desires for the unprecedented expansion of the military-carceral state since the 1980s. It outlines the national political discourses, media representations and state policies that helped construct emotional economies of fear and aggression about "criminality" and "terrorism." Color-blind and racially coded discourses and representations encouraged U.S. constituents to support forms of punishment and containment that targeted Black, Latino/a, Arab and Muslim people through the War on Drugs, immigrant detentions, and the War on Terror. Part I pays particular attention to socially shared emotional economies attached to the ideological fantasies of law and order and American exceptionalism. These hegemonic emotions reward people who identify with being law abiding (through racial appearance, behavior, style or speech) with an affective sense of superiority over those who are assumed to be criminals and terrorists. 1 New York, NY: The Raging Emotions of White Police Brutality chapter abstract Chapter 1 investigates the 1997 case of police brutality against Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant. It offers a localized reading of the ways dominant stereotypes and feelings about Haitian immigrants and Black "criminality" in New York City helped structure NYPD police officers' violen...
