Ha. With a membership at the most awesome gym around!
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Cannot unsee!!
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Correction on Cash: he was a Cherokee from a completely white-identified and white-assimilated family which included Cherokee plantation enslavers and a so-help-me steamboat pilot. The Vann Cherokee family has an interesting history that you might want to check out from curiosity. They lived here in Little White Shithole about four miles from where I sit, and had a mansion, plantation, and brickyard which were stolen in the Trail of Tears.
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Contemporary photographic art on the subject of whiteness, in its varying subtleties and guises, can be put to use as a form of subversion, or disruption – a rebuttal to white visual culture. How might photography be reclaimed from its own history, in order to help even white people see anew?
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LOL! Will also make except for alt-country like early the Wilco…
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These look amazing… the erased lynching ones seem especially powerful… images of lynching are powerful when used in a critical view, in part because of the fucked up juxtaposition of the violence and often the celebratory atmosphere of the crowds. They’re a strong indictment of white culture and how it has often employed violence to shore up community.
The one with the Prince family is hitting my creep factor. But then again, those kind of white, upper class families tend to hit that, because they have such a “perfect” outward appearance, but they can’t possibly be that perfect, can they? And how did they get to the “perfect” in the first place, and of course the answer to that is white supremacy…
The last one with Trump is jarring… of course it also reminds me one of the recent recurring SNL bits, which imagines the Trumps as a black family, on a show called “Them Trumps.”
It sort of explores how the behavior that the Trump family regularly engages in would be deemed entirely unacceptable by white Americans if the Trumps were black…
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So, I think this could be considered white culture as well: falsely claiming a pet as a “service animal” so as to keep Fluffy or Fido close instead of in the cargo hold (at a hefty price). This guy did something to show how ridiculous it is. Despite having never kept bees, he sent in a photo of a random beehive and successfully registered this beehive as his service animal.
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Iris Dement, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine…
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(Bonus points for the Real Genius reference in that article.)
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Cowboy Junkies…
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Nancy Griffith (or is she folk?)?
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Also… can you get more white than Gibson? Not only is he rich, entitled, racist, antisemitic… far too many of his films have the theme of him being a victim/martyr. I do love the original Mad Max movies, and the Lethal Weapon films are pretty okay… a few others, but damn, he’s flogging that narrative for all it’s worth, and it has gotten kind of boring.
Reminds of me Grace Hale’s A Nation of Outsiders book, which is primarily aimed at people like Gibson, white, middle class or affluent, privileged, who see themselves as social and cultural outsiders. They feel in love with rebellion as a concept, but didn’t really want to undermine their source of privilege, but simply to maintain it.
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Which explains my love/hate relationship with films like The Bounty and Gallipoli.
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This might not be the best example, the “white kid” is of mixed race (Moroccan/Irish). But there will be plenty of other more valid comparisons in our press.
Oh does it say that in the pic? Couldn’t read that fine print myself…
I read the article that Jerwin linked to and recalled the case, the victim Jayden, had briefly been treated as an innocent (and lapped up by the media), it later turned out he was a rival gang’s drug dealer, which embarrassed the media into a u-turn on his character.
It was still a case of two poor kids involved in gangs.
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I’m not denying this particular problem exists, but this isn’t a good example of it. The person in the story on the left had been convicted, the person in the one on the right had not (at the time of publication): these days at least, British newspapers tend to be circumspect about describing as-yet-unconvicted suspects and defendants in derogatory terms, as we don’t have a 1st Amendment but we do have pretty draconian libel and contempt-of-court laws.
Please ignore all that: they kept the “teen” appellation even after he was found guilty.
