Tate, SA (2014) I can't quite put my finger on it: racism's touch. Ethnicities. ISSN 1741-2706
Abstract
Black liberation thought is foundational for Black Critical Race Theory (BCRT) which in turn is crucial for unpicking the operation of white power in organizations. Such unpicking is urgent given the observation that in organizations racism melts into thin air even as it permeates their very walls. ‘I just can't quite put my finger on it’ engages with the struggle to identify racism's invisible touch. In the academy, postrace sensibilities present us with slippages where ‘race’ no longer matters, racism does not exist and BCRT is not theory whilst teaching on ‘race’ and racism is mainstreamed. Racism is transmitted through the flinching away from Black touch, whether as theory or body, a movement away which contains contempt/ disgust. This is the ordinariness of racism where BCRT is aligned with the Black body so as to alienate it from sociology as a discipline and erase its decolonizing impetus.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2014, The Author. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Ethnicities. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy |
Keywords: | Affect; disgust; contempt; critical race theory; racism; decolonizing; postrace; disalienation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2015 16:27 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jan 2018 19:41 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796814564626 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1468796814564626 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:83210 |