Tate, SA (2013) Racial affective economies, disalienation and 'race made ordinary'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37 (13). 2475 - 2490. ISSN 0141-9870
Abstract
This paper speaks against tolerance as an instrument of institutionalized anti-racism within academia where collegiality is a minimal expectation in interpersonal interactions. Through auto-ethnographic readings, the discussion focuses on the racial affective economies produced in universities as tolerance ‘makes race ordinary’. Within this reading, ‘making race ordinary’ is shown to produce unliveable lives because of its racial affective economies animated by contemptuous tolerance, disgust and disattendability. These negative affects emerge within the epistemology of ignorance produced by the racial contract and have affective and career consequences for racialized others placed outside of organizational networks. The paper argues that to destabilize the white power in networks that decide on access, tenure and promotion and to enable liveable lives within universities, the transformative potential of the transracial intimacy of friendship must be engaged. This entails ‘race made ordinary’ through disalienation-estrangement from the ‘raced’ subject positionings of the racial contract.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnic and Racial Studies on 29 July 2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01419870.2013.821146. |
Keywords: | tolerance; disattendability; disgust; disalienation; transracial; friendship |
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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: | 24 Jul 2015 15:53 |
Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2017 05:27 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2013.821146 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01419870.2013.821146 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:85695 |