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“Is Your Dad a Towelhead?"
Author(s) -
Boni Wozolek
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
canadian social studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2564-1166
pISSN - 1191-162X
DOI - 10.29173/css27
Subject(s) - sociology , everyday life , criminology , social psychology , gender studies , psychology , political science , law
Using the author’s personal experiences as a Brown woman living in the United States after September 11, this paper uses post-9/11 violence enacted against Brown citizens to consider the nuances of necropolitics. Specifically, this paper argues that too often everyday acts of violence, such as gaslighting, are central mechanisms of necropolitical control. Frequently, these normalized aggressions make relegating people to the status of the living dead possible. Finally, this paper argues that necropolitics emerges from intra-actions, often causing the ontoepistemological death for communities of color in general and, in this case, Brown people in a physically and psychologically violent post-9/11 United States.

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