'Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity' (original) (raw)

Black Guys and White Guise: The Discursive Construction of White Masculinity

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2012

Abstract This article explores how discursive repertories about black masculinity inform the construction of white masculinity in two settings assumed diametrically opposed: white nationalists and white antiracists. Drawing from in-depth semi-structured interviews, year-long ethnographic field notes, and content analysis from two nationwide white nationalist and white antiracist organizations, the author finds three common discursive frames to saturate both groups' discourse: black male dysfunctionalism, paternalistic surveillance of ...

THE white male complex, 1990 - 2020

THE white male complex, 1990 - 2020, 2020

This book is a survey of 30 years of artistic work by Thomas Eller. He has been deconstructing Western notions of subjectivity and in particular the "white male complex" starting with a thorough interrogation of the camera obscura and by extension photography. Identifying the camera as a colonial tool in everyday life, he works against selfie-culture and, ironically, self portraiture altogether..