Epistemological Congruence, Artificial Divisions: Economic Politicking Against Blackness and Muslims

• In Event: Feminist Resistance, the Futurity of Value: Unmoored from Property and Division, Against Racial Capitalism

Abstract

White supremacy undergirds increasing attacks against racialized others, with influxes of capital mobilized against "black identity extremists" and "banning" Muslims from the US. The epistemological congruencies across forms of interrelated bigotry, essentialized constructions of groups cohered through threat to white supremacist patriarchal nationalism, are not only a 'scene of solidarity' between economically violent actors, but reveal the violent intimacies of capital. This paper investigates the normalization of white nationalism, which exists not only through the powers of the state, but is upheld primarily through racist and religious bigotry fueled and funded by right wing commentators and lobbyists.

Presenter

• Melinda Quinn Brennan, SUNY Oneonta