Olund, E.N. orcid.org/0000-0002-0058-8698 (2017) Multiple racial futures: Spatio-temporalities of race during World War I. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35 (2). pp. 281-298. ISSN 0263-7758
Abstract
Using the example of the WWI-US Commission on Training Camp Activities, I argue that racialized biopolitical projects entail multiple, specific spatio-temporalities that seek to enact different racial futures within and between racial categories. What I call ‘victorious whiteness’, ‘infinite whiteness’ and ‘static blackness’ assembled by the CTCA, and an ‘advancing blackness’ pursued by black elites in opposition, interacted in a complex topology of early 20th-century efforts to protect trainee soldiers from venereal disease, and efforts to prevent racial violence, both of which endangered the war effort and thus the future of the white nation. This counters a tendency in much current literature on racial biopolitics to assert a stark binary between and homogeneity within the facilitation of white futurity and black risk failure within individual biopolitical projects.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 SAGE Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | race; sexuality; biopolitics; spatiality; temporality; futurity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2017 14:44 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2017 00:20 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817696499 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0263775817696499 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:112315 |