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Notes

1 For context see: Kevin Sack, “Despite Report After Report, Unrest Endures in Cincinnati,” The New York Times, April 16, 2001, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/16/us/despite-report-after-report-unrest-endures-in-cincinnati.html.

2 W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk,” Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1920).

3 Catherine R. Squires, The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century (New York: New York University Press, 2014). In this work Squires reports the first usage of “post-racial” was related to Jimmy Carter's capacity to build a black and white southern coalition to win him the presidency.

4 Eric King Watts, “Postracial Fantasies, Blackness, and Zombies,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 14, no. 4 (2017): 317–33. DOI:10.1080/14791420.2017.1338742.

5 Jaspir K. Puar, The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017).

6 Calvin L. Warren, Ontological Terror: Nihilism, Blackness, and Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018).

7 Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (New York: Oxford, 1997); Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument,” CR: The Centennial Review 3 (Fall 2003): 257–337; Alexander Weheliye, Habeas Viscus (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014).

8 Kyla Schuller, The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018).

9 Frank B. Wilderson, Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010).

10 Warren, Chapter 3: “Scientific Horror,” Ontological Terror, 110–42.