Conspiring Against White Pleasures

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Notes

1 Watts, in this forum.

2 Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013), 139–48.

3 “How to smize with Tyra Banks,” marieclarie.com, May 24, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaE__NAtrJA.

4 Alissa Richardson theorizes “bearing witness while Black” as an investigative, editorial stance that corrects false narratives through the sacrificing of Black lives to capture via smartphone, institutional and structural antiblack violence. For more, see Alissa Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and The New Protest #Journalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).

5 Cristina Beltrán, Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), 17–19.

6 Beltrán, Cruelty as Citizenship, 17.

7 Beltrán, Cruelty as Citizenship, 19.

8 Stacie Mccormick, “The History of White Investment in Black Suffering,” Black Perspectives, April 16, 2019. https://www.aaihs.org/the-history-of-white-investment-in-black-suffering/

9 Eduardo Bonillia-Silva, “Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions,” American Sociological Review 81, no. 1 (2020): 1–25.

10 Wendy Hesford, “Surviving Recognition and Racial In/justice,” Philosophy & Rhetoric 48, no. 4 (2015): 548.

11 Hesford, in this forum.

12 Hesford, in this forum.

13 Hesford, in this forum.

14 McCann, in this forum.

15 Matthew Houdek and Ersula Ore, “Cultivating Otherwise Worlds and Breathable Futures,” Rhetoric & Public Culture (forthcoming).

16 Bonilla-Silva, “Feeling Race,” 4.