tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post5632214755748611821..comments2024-03-22T20:34:13.792-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: Race-Making in Practice: Are Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokar Tsarnaev the New Sacco and Vanzetti?Lady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-76553167478607461352013-05-20T22:46:04.396-05:002013-05-20T22:46:04.396-05:00Thanks for the response. As for the "excepti...Thanks for the response. As for the "exceptional whiteness" bit, I was merely positing that the notion that race as an identity allows for the logic of racial superiority. But nevermind that, let's focus on the real problem...<br /><br />"Of course white is a made up word and social category." <br /><br />Agreed. If this is the case, then how is it possible to answer the question "Are these men white?" without trafficking within the false binary of that discourse? The fact is, you are trafficking within this discourse when you assert that "yes of course they are white." <br /><br />Yes, the right wing is vexed by the notion that a person can be both "white" and "terrorist," and the left media is making sure they realize it (e.g. "Let's hope the Boston Bombers are white Americans" by that one columnist who writes for that one Salon place). Yes, the right wingers would like to kick the "unsuitable" and "undesirable" whites into the Other; it is similarly mischievous to try and push them back into whiteness. <br /><br />If you had answered the question "the media believes they are white, or they believe they are white," instead you answered "they ARE white" as if this was an objective term. It is clear, upon reading your response, that indeed you recognize that the term whiteness is a perception, and if we can answer the question with the a change of subject "These men believe, society believes..." then the reader is not to be mislead. <br /><br />If we agree that whiteness is a discursive category defined by both internal and external perception (double consciousness Frederick Douglass style), and these men were considered "black" in their country (external perception), are non-European (internal and external), and anti-thetical (by their own words and own internal perception) to the American identity, then how are these men, by their own perception as well as those around them, white? I'd have to argue that Tamerlan did not perceive himself as white and neither did those around him. Djhokhar, however, by mere virtue of his skin color, seemed to have had a more ambiguous perception of his own identity. <br /><br />So, I'll say that the answer, if we word it correctly, still involves a complex interplay and counter-play that shaped the perceived (internal and external) identity of these men. The answer is not simple, and I don't think "yes of course they are white" is a sufficient response.Dustin Jaquezhttp://www.facebook.com/dustin.jaqueznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-33021774648935753942013-05-01T11:09:25.484-05:002013-05-01T11:09:25.484-05:00He also destroyed via review Empty Chair/Empty Bra...He also destroyed via review Empty Chair/Empty Brain/Empty Soul Eastwood's movie on that criminal, Hoover. Seems that Hoover made life very uncomfortable for O'Hehir's leftist family.Lee Violahttp://www.facebook.com/lee.viola.94noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-25448423627485633592013-04-30T22:11:13.828-05:002013-04-30T22:11:13.828-05:00Will do. His range is very impressive and comments...Will do. His range is very impressive and comments usually quite strong.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-62238566369974919652013-04-30T12:02:13.927-05:002013-04-30T12:02:13.927-05:00I pay a quick visit daily a few web sites and
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