Race, Post-Race

The talk examined the persistence of race in purportedly postracial times. Why do racial logics continue to underpin disparities in social, economic, cultural and political opportunities despite official commitments to the eradication of racism, not only within individual states but across them? Alana Lentin built on Barnor Hesse’s invocation of a ‘raceocracy’ which rules performatively and as a system for the management of human life. Zoning in on the global laboratory for the ‘production of horror’ that is the Australian system of mandatory detention for asylum seekers, she examined the co-dependency between the maintenance of the racialized border and professed commitments to a postracial future, a division which entrenches a divide between purified inside and the contaminants that lurk outside the contemporary racial state.

1. RACE, POST-RACE
ALANA LENTIN
INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL INQUIRY, BERLIN
JUNE 30 2014

4. DONALD STERLING & V. STIVIANO

5. –PAUL GILROY, 2005
“Race is generally not thought of as something that structures the life
of the post-imperial polity”

6. –DAVID THEO GOLDBERG (2006)
“European racial denial concerns wanting race in the wake of World
War II categorically to implode, to erase itself. This is a wishful
evaporation never quite enacted, never satisfied. A desire at once
frustrated and displaced, racist implications always lingering and
diffuse, silenced but assumed, always already returned and haunting,
buried but alive. Race in Europe has left odourless traces but ones
suffocating in the wake of their at once denied risinous stench.”

9. NIGEL FARAGE, UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY

11. 1. ON THE BUSES

12. 1. ON THE BUSES

13. –@DINESHD’SOUZA
“I am thankful this week when I remember America is big enough
and great enough to survive grown-up Trayvon in the White House!”

14. 2. WALKING WHILE MUSLIM
Argenteuil, Paris, June 22 2013, Leila O. is attacked and subsequently miscarries

17. 3. THE RIGHT TO BE A BIGOT

18. –JASON SILVERSTEIN, SLATE MAGAZINE
“We’ve known for at least two decades that minorities, primarily
blacks and Hispanics, receive inadequate pain medication. Often this
failure comes when people need help the most. For example, an
early study of this disparity revealed that minorities with recurrent or
metastatic cancer were less likely to have adequate analgesia. Racial
disparities in pain management have been recorded in the treatment
of migraines and back pain, cancer care in the elderly, and children
with orthopedic fractures. A 2008 review of 13 years of national
survey data on emergency room visits found that for a pain-related
visit, an opioid prescription was more likely for white patients (31
percent) than black patients (23 percent).”

20. JOURNALIST, ANDREW BOLT ACCUSES ‘LIGHT-
SKINNED’ ABORIGINALS OF ABUSING BLACKNESS

22. –18C RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT OF AUSTRALIA, 1975
Offensive behaviour because of race, colour or national or ethnic origin
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1. It is unlawful for a person to do an act, otherwise than in private, if:
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(a) the act is reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to offend, insult,
humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people; and
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(b) the act is done because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin
of the other person or of some or all of the people in the group.

24. ROUND UP OF MAY MAU SUSPECTS IN COLONIAL
KENYA

25. –DAVID STARKEY, NEWSNIGHT, AUGUST 12 2011
“The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent
destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion and
black and white boys and girls operate in this language together.
!

27. MARION COUNTY LOCKUP IN INDIANAPOLIS,
INDIANA, 2009.

28. 4. LABORATORIES OF DETERRENCE

29. AERIAL SHOT, MANUS ISLAND DETENTION CENTRE

30. ROEBOURNE GAOL,WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1896

31. INJURED
ASYLUM
SEEKERS,
MANUS ISLAND,
FEBRUARY 2014

32. FEBRUARY 17/18, MANUS ISLAND

33. MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION, 26 MAY 2014

34. MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION, 26 MAY 2014