Racializing Bodies
摘要
“Racializing bodies” discusses how human bodies ought to be central in the process of racial healing, beyond cognitive interventions alone. Racism and enacting the “cult of the straight-white dude” both work as forms of ongoing racialized trauma that haunt all people, all types of embodiments, and especially racialized bodies. A body-perspective focuses on how human bodies manage to “internalize” or integrate the modern/colonial project of disconnect that is white supremacy within their own body, and how institutions and organizations of late capitalism perpetuate white supremacy and conversational silencing about racialized power differentials. When we ignore those power differentials and apply substantialist (non-relational) frameworks, the resulting white ignorance perpetuates unintended racism and even produces innovative ways of racializing the bodies of non-western peoples without even mentioning race.