This thesis engages with the performance of racism through images and text in online socialsexual
spaces during contemporaneity. Using race play as a point of departure, I explore the
involvement of photography and language in the construction and performance of identities
as well as the reappropriation/resignification of historically oppressive anti-Black language
in search of sexual gratification. The thesis utilises a diverse body of theoretical, fictional and
nonfictional literature that explores concepts such as blackness, queerness, roleplay,
determinism of race and gender in the construction and performance of identity, the role of
race in sexualisation and the role of sex and sexuality in racialisation. This literature forms a
basis upon which all readings of artworks presented in this thesis are made; from Jeremy O.
Harris' Slave Play all the way to the infamous walls of Tumblr.
Anotace v angličtině
This thesis engages with the performance of racism through images and text in online socialsexual
spaces during contemporaneity. Using race play as a point of departure, I explore the
involvement of photography and language in the construction and performance of identities
as well as the reappropriation/resignification of historically oppressive anti-Black language
in search of sexual gratification. The thesis utilises a diverse body of theoretical, fictional and
nonfictional literature that explores concepts such as blackness, queerness, roleplay,
determinism of race and gender in the construction and performance of identity, the role of
race in sexualisation and the role of sex and sexuality in racialisation. This literature forms a
basis upon which all readings of artworks presented in this thesis are made; from Jeremy O.
Harris' Slave Play all the way to the infamous walls of Tumblr.
This thesis engages with the performance of racism through images and text in online socialsexual
spaces during contemporaneity. Using race play as a point of departure, I explore the
involvement of photography and language in the construction and performance of identities
as well as the reappropriation/resignification of historically oppressive anti-Black language
in search of sexual gratification. The thesis utilises a diverse body of theoretical, fictional and
nonfictional literature that explores concepts such as blackness, queerness, roleplay,
determinism of race and gender in the construction and performance of identity, the role of
race in sexualisation and the role of sex and sexuality in racialisation. This literature forms a
basis upon which all readings of artworks presented in this thesis are made; from Jeremy O.
Harris' Slave Play all the way to the infamous walls of Tumblr.
Anotace v angličtině
This thesis engages with the performance of racism through images and text in online socialsexual
spaces during contemporaneity. Using race play as a point of departure, I explore the
involvement of photography and language in the construction and performance of identities
as well as the reappropriation/resignification of historically oppressive anti-Black language
in search of sexual gratification. The thesis utilises a diverse body of theoretical, fictional and
nonfictional literature that explores concepts such as blackness, queerness, roleplay,
determinism of race and gender in the construction and performance of identity, the role of
race in sexualisation and the role of sex and sexuality in racialisation. This literature forms a
basis upon which all readings of artworks presented in this thesis are made; from Jeremy O.
Harris' Slave Play all the way to the infamous walls of Tumblr.
This thesis engages with the performance of racism through images and text in online social-sexual spaces during contemporaneity. Using race play as a point of departure, I explore the involvement of photography and language in the construction and performance of identities as well as the reappropriation/resignification of historically oppressive anti-Black language in search of sexual gratification.
The thesis utilises a diverse body of theoretical, fictional and nonfictional literature that explores concepts such as blackness, queerness, roleplay, determinism of race and gender in the construction and performance of identity, the role of race in sexualisation and the role of sex and sexuality in racialisation. This literature forms a basis upon which all readings of artworks presented in this thesis are made; from Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play all the way to the infamous walls of Tumblr.
Zásady pro vypracování
This thesis engages with the performance of racism through images and text in online social-sexual spaces during contemporaneity. Using race play as a point of departure, I explore the involvement of photography and language in the construction and performance of identities as well as the reappropriation/resignification of historically oppressive anti-Black language in search of sexual gratification.
The thesis utilises a diverse body of theoretical, fictional and nonfictional literature that explores concepts such as blackness, queerness, roleplay, determinism of race and gender in the construction and performance of identity, the role of race in sexualisation and the role of sex and sexuality in racialisation. This literature forms a basis upon which all readings of artworks presented in this thesis are made; from Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play all the way to the infamous walls of Tumblr.
Seznam doporučené literatury
Baldwin, James. "James Baldwin: Letter from a Region in My Mind.” The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 1962, www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind
Baldwin, James, and Raoul Peck. I Am Not Your Negro: A Major Motion Picture Directed by Raoul Peck. Vintage International, Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
Pilgrim, David and Middleton, Phillip. "Nigger and Caricature.” Jim Crow Museum, Sept. 2001, https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/caricature/homepage.htm
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann, Grove Weidenfeld, 1967.
Harris, Jeremy O. Slave Play. Theatre Communications Group, 2019, Scribd, https://www.scribd.com/book/443289532/Slave-Play. Accessed 9 Jan. 2023.
Kadlec, Jeanna. "A Brief History of Queer Language before Queer Identity.” Literary Hub, 13 May. 2019, https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-queer-language-before-queer-identity/.
Kuzmanovic, Dejan. "Queer Race Play: Kinky Sex and the Trauma of Racism". Disgust and Desire. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004360150_005 Web, p. 71 in pp. 69 – 88.
Lorde, Audre. Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. Kore Press, 2000.
Schotanus, Susanne "Racism or Race Play: A Conceptual Investigation of the Race Play Debates,” in Irene Fattacciu and Claudio Fogu, eds., Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict 4 (2017). https://doi.org/10.21431/Z3001FPilgrim,
Shefer, Tamara, and Kopano Ratele. "Racist Sexualisation and Sexualised Racism in Narratives on Apartheid.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, vol. 16, no. 1, 2011, pp. 27–48, https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2010.38
Stanciu, Elena-Larisa. "The Black Male Body: Violence and Representation in American Visual Culture.” Specialeopgave. Cand.mag. Engelsk, 2013.
Sturaro, Samuel, and Fabio Fasoli . "From Derogation to Reclamation: How Does Language Change?” Edited by Amanda Sesko, The Inquisitive Mind, 2021, www.in-mind.org/article/from-derogation-to-reclamation-how-does-language-change
Seznam doporučené literatury
Baldwin, James. "James Baldwin: Letter from a Region in My Mind.” The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 1962, www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind
Baldwin, James, and Raoul Peck. I Am Not Your Negro: A Major Motion Picture Directed by Raoul Peck. Vintage International, Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
Pilgrim, David and Middleton, Phillip. "Nigger and Caricature.” Jim Crow Museum, Sept. 2001, https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/caricature/homepage.htm
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann, Grove Weidenfeld, 1967.
Harris, Jeremy O. Slave Play. Theatre Communications Group, 2019, Scribd, https://www.scribd.com/book/443289532/Slave-Play. Accessed 9 Jan. 2023.
Kadlec, Jeanna. "A Brief History of Queer Language before Queer Identity.” Literary Hub, 13 May. 2019, https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-queer-language-before-queer-identity/.
Kuzmanovic, Dejan. "Queer Race Play: Kinky Sex and the Trauma of Racism". Disgust and Desire. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004360150_005 Web, p. 71 in pp. 69 – 88.
Lorde, Audre. Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. Kore Press, 2000.
Schotanus, Susanne "Racism or Race Play: A Conceptual Investigation of the Race Play Debates,” in Irene Fattacciu and Claudio Fogu, eds., Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict 4 (2017). https://doi.org/10.21431/Z3001FPilgrim,
Shefer, Tamara, and Kopano Ratele. "Racist Sexualisation and Sexualised Racism in Narratives on Apartheid.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, vol. 16, no. 1, 2011, pp. 27–48, https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2010.38
Stanciu, Elena-Larisa. "The Black Male Body: Violence and Representation in American Visual Culture.” Specialeopgave. Cand.mag. Engelsk, 2013.
Sturaro, Samuel, and Fabio Fasoli . "From Derogation to Reclamation: How Does Language Change?” Edited by Amanda Sesko, The Inquisitive Mind, 2021, www.in-mind.org/article/from-derogation-to-reclamation-how-does-language-change