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Ben Nichols
White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
This short essay offers thoughts on bell hooks’s use of the list form in the phrase ‘white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’. While this list suggests that the social forces it contains work together in one unified direction, we can also look to instances in which they pull in opposing directions. However, the function of the list may not be to faithfully map the complexities of social life, but, rather, in its reduction and simplicity, to enable us to believe that social transformation is possible.
Keywords: System; Oppression; Social complexity; Rhetorical simplicity; Social transformation; Rhetorical criticism
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White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
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Ben Nichols
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This short essay offers thoughts on bell hooks’s use of the list form in the phrase ‘white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’. While this list suggests that the social forces it contains work together in one unified direction, we can also look to instances in which they pull in opposing directions. However, the function of the list may not be to faithfully map the complexities of social life, but, rather, in its reduction and simplicity, to enable us to believe that social transformation is possible.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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11 October 2022
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System
Oppression
Social complexity
Rhetorical simplicity
Social transformation
Rhetorical criticism
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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263
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265
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The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 263–65
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References
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- D’Emilio, John, ‘Capitalism and Gay Identity’, in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, ed. by Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell and Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983), pp. 100–13
- Eng, David L., The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010) <https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392828>
- Puar, Jasbir, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007) <https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822390442>
- bell hooks and Laverne Cox in a Public Dialogue at the New School, online video recording, YouTube, 13 October 2014 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMmZIJijgY> [accessed: 8 July 2022]
- hooks, bell, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1984)
- hooks, bell, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000)
Cite as:
Ben Nichols, ‘White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy’, in The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 263-65 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_14>