Racism, Pride and Fear

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jan 4 08:37:01 PST 2003


Chip Berlet wrote:
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> As for lynching, Abby Ferber and others point out that lynching and other
> forms of sexualized racism is tied to competition for dominance in the
> grotesque concept that natural law gives sexual property rights to White men
> over Black men for access to White women's bodies.
>

This, it seems to me, hangs in midair: that is, it comes close to being a description masquerading as an explanation. Why should this particular "grotesque concept" appear at a given time in a given place under given historical conditions. Ideologies do _not_ have a life of their own, and they disappear when the material conditions which they make sense of disappear.

Carrol



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