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Talking About Whiteness

Thu, April 13th, 2023
4:15 pm
- 5:30 pm

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Hannah Noel ’08, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, MCLA, will discuss her research as it relates to her book Deflective Whiteness: Co-opting Black & Latinx Identity Politics.

A reception will follow the lecture and a book raffle for students in attendance.

In Deflective Whiteness, Hannah Noel repositions Whiteness studies in relation to current discussions around racialized animus and White victimhood, demonstrating how White supremacy adapts its discursive strategies by cannibalizing the language and rhetoric of Black and Latinx social justice movements. Analyzing a wide-ranging collection of cultural objects—memes, oration, music, advertisements, and news coverage—Noel shows how White deflection sustains and reproduces structures of inequality and injustice.

“In drawing on history, rhetoric, cultural studies, and other fields to explore a key manifestation of white supremacy’s entrenchment today, Deflective Whiteness is a model for interdisciplinary scholarship. Noel displays a breathtaking understanding of the history of and crevices within critical whiteness studies.” ––Lee Bebout, author of Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White.

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