“I think it was in poor taste that you were doing Murtaugh in whiteface” – Blackface goes West (and White) in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX, 2005-) by Sébastien Lefait

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Hate Music by Claude Chastagner

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Affective economies of racism on social media by Rodwell Makombe, Bright Sinyonce, Mpitseng Tladi, Saneliso Thambo

“…This article draws on Ahmed’s idea of “affective economies” and Ekman’s (2019) notion of “affective publics” to investigate how white supremacist groups in South Africa have used social media to express racist views, attitudes and sentiments. …”
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Race, Gender, and Empire: The Strange Career of Women’s Voting Rights in Wyoming by Virginia Scharff

“…This essay argues that women won the vote in Wyoming Territory in 1869 due to a convergence of the post-Civil War politics of Reconstruction and the dynamics of white supremacist settler colonialism. White women’s rights emerged as a tool to expand the American empire in a place then mostly in the hands of Indigenous inhabitants.…”
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States of Emergency/States of Emergence: Notes on Claudia Rankine by Lee Spinks

“…Beginning from her conviction of the fundamental connection between white supremacist thinking and the enclosure of black life within the social death of slavery, it explores the consequences for both black and white identity of white fantasies of absolute sovereignty. …”
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Miss-represented by Pontsho Pilane, Mehita Iqani

“…The findings showed that even though Glamour magazine claims that 65% of its readership is comprised of black women, they feature in only 30% of images, and when present, have hairstyles and body types most commonly associated with white supremacist ideas of beauty. The (albeit unsurprising) failure of Glamour magazine to adequately represent a diversity of black femininities is theorised as a result of pervasive neo-liberal, racist and patriarchal structures of power in post-apartheid South Africa. …”
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#BlackLivesMatter: by Nusrat Jahan

“…It has redefined, extended, and dislocated white supremacist narratives about time, culture, history, violence, and racism, taking an interesting stance on the social media hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, after the movement Black Lives Matter was born following George Zimmerman's acquittal in Trayvon Martin's shooting murder in 2012. …”
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