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RACE, POST-RACE ALANA LENTIN INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL INQUIRY, BERLIN JUNE 30 2014

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The talk examined the persistence of race in purportedly postracial times. Why do racial logics continue to underpin disparities in social, economic, cultural and political opportunities despite official commitments to the eradication of racism, not only within individual states but across them? Alana Lentin built on Barnor Hesse’s invocation of a ‘raceocracy’ which rules performatively and as a system for the management of human life. Zoning in on the global laboratory for the ‘production of horror’ that is the Australian system of mandatory detention for asylum seekers, she examined the co-dependency between the maintenance of the racialized border and professed commitments to a postracial future, a division which entrenches a divide between purified inside and the contaminants that lurk outside the contemporary racial state.

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R A C E , P O S T- R A C E

A L A N A L E N T I N I N S T I T U T E F O R C U LT U R A L I N Q U I R Y, B E R L I N J U N E 3 0 2 0 1 4

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D O N A L D S T E R L I N G & V. S T I V I A N O

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– PA U L G I L R O Y, 2 0 0 5

“Race is generally not thought of as something that structures the life of the post-imperial polity”

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– D A V I D T H E O G O L D B E R G ( 2 0 0 6 )

“European racial denial concerns wanting race in the wake of World War II categorically to implode, to erase itself. This is a wishful evaporation never quite enacted, never satisfied. A desire at once frustrated and displaced, racist implications always lingering and diffuse, silenced but assumed, always already returned and haunting, buried but alive. Race in Europe has left odourless traces but ones suffocating in the wake of their at once denied risinous stench.”

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N I G E L FA R A G E , U K I N D E P E N D E N C E PA R T Y

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1 . O N T H E B U S E S

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1 . O N T H E B U S E S

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– @ D I N E S H D ’ S O U Z A

“I am thankful this week when I remember America is big enough and great enough to survive grown-up Trayvon in the White House!”

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2 . W A L K I N G W H I L E M U S L I MArgenteuil, Paris, June 22 2013, Leila O. is attacked and subsequently miscarries

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3 . T H E R I G H T T O B E A B I G O T

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– J A S O N S I LV E R S T E I N , S L A T E M A G A Z I N E

“We’ve known for at least two decades that minorities, primarily blacks and Hispanics, receive inadequate pain medication. Often this failure comes when people need help the most. For example, an early study of this disparity revealed that minorities with recurrent or metastatic cancer were less likely to have adequate analgesia. Racial disparities in pain management have been recorded in the treatment of migraines and back pain, cancer care in the elderly, and children with orthopedic fractures. A 2008 review of 13 years of national survey data on emergency room visits found that for a pain-related visit, an opioid prescription was more likely for white patients (31 percent) than black patients (23 percent).”

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J O U R N A L I S T, A N D R E W B O LT A C C U S E S ‘ L I G H T-S K I N N E D ’ A B O R I G I N A L S O F A B U S I N G B L A C K N E S S

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– 1 8 C R A C I A L D I S C R I M I N A T I O N A C T O F A U S T R A L I A , 1 9 7 5

Offensive behaviour because of race, colour or national or ethnic origin !

1. It is unlawful for a person to do an act, otherwise than in private, if: !

(a) the act is reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people; and !

(b) the act is done because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the other person or of some or all of the people in the group.

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R O U N D U P O F M AY M A U S U S P E C T S I N C O L O N I A L K E N YA

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– D A V I D S TA R K E Y, N E W S N I G H T, A U G U S T 1 2 2 0 1 1

“The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion and black and white boys and girls operate in this language together.

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M A R I O N C O U N T Y L O C K U P I N I N D I A N A P O L I S , I N D I A N A , 2 0 0 9 .

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4 . L A B O R AT O R I E S O F D E T E R R E N C E

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A E R I A L S H O T, M A N U S I S L A N D D E T E N T I O N C E N T R E

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R O E B O U R N E G A O L , W E S T E R N A U S T R A L I A , 1 8 9 6

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I N J U R E D A S Y L U M S E E K E R S , M A N U S I S L A N D , F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 4

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F E B R U A R Y 1 7 / 1 8 , M A N U S I S L A N D

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M I N I S T E R F O R I M M I G R AT I O N , 2 6 M AY 2 0 1 4

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M I N I S T E R F O R I M M I G R AT I O N , 2 6 M AY 2 0 1 4