SXST 2102 Lecture 5: Razack and Martinez readings questions
18 Dec 2019
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1. explain what happened at the abu ghraib prison, a place razack describes as a state of exception (the suspension of the rule of law), and why she considers it an example of how. Race, class, gender, and sexuality [underwrote] each other in [a moment] of public racial violence. [62] [there are several different ways she approaches this formulation as she gives her examples you should consider all of them in your answer. ] According to razack, sexualized racial violence provides and offers a sense of power and control, as well as an intimacy to the things that are too forbidden for humans to desire or see. The function of sexualized racial violence is to evict the racial threats from one"s community. An example of sexualized racial violence would be how a black man becomes a source of sexual pleasure to those who murder him. In addition, lynching became a symbol of sexual encounter between the victims and the white mob.
