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Whiteness and the Black Fan Imagination: Making Meaning of Whiteness within the Geographies of NASCAR

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Vadeboncoeur J. D.

Qualitative Sociology Review

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2022

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vol. 18

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issue 2

48-71

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This article places its attention on how the spatial boundaries, practices, and separations-as structured by whiteness-impact the contestation and negotiation of meaning-making processes in the production and consumption of NASCAR space(s) for Black fans. It was through that vantage point that the participants demonstrated a nuanced understanding of whiteness, particularly through an awareness of NASCAR as a White space, how to effectively navigate such a White space, and a contextualization of more recent enactments of whiteness within these spaces. To explore and define Black individuals’ racialized experiences and movements as NASCAR fans from their perspective, this article uses a qualitative approach as grounded in narrative inquiry. Thus, findings demonstrate how Black fans make meaning of whiteness within the geographies of NASCAR, which advances theoretical understandings of how whiteness is perceived and represented in the Black imagination. Informed by Southern regional identity and the navigation of White space, these representations of whiteness as exclusive, fearful, and possessive are made salient through NASCAR’s attachment to racialized cultural values.

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The Christian Criteria for Assimilation: Racially Reading Christianity, Civility, and Social Belonging in the Modern Western World

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Wong J. W.-F.

Open Theology

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2016

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vol. 2

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issue 1

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Recent surges of immigration in Western countries have produced statements about what successful assimilation requires. While it is commonly believed that proper assimilation in the West is rooted in shared democratic values, this article argues that beneath such values lies a Christian image of humanity, which, due to the colonial endeavor, is mostly clearly manifest by the white body. As a result of the link between whiteness, Christianity, and civility that develops within the western colonial context and persists into early twentieth-century U.S. immigration, one’s spiritual state as well as one’s fitness for social inclusion are judged along racial lines. By identifying this relationship, the present essay demonstrates the role that Christianity has played in the relentless, racially rooted visual distinction of those who are judged to fit within civilized society and those who are seen as a threat to the established social order.

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«Lemma»: Jay Wright’s Idiorrhythmic American Theater

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Daddario W.

Pamiętnik Teatralny

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2021

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vol. 70

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issue 4

121-140

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Esej przedstawia sztukę Jaya Wrighta Lemma jako wyzwanie historiograficzne, a także jako dzieło idiorytmicznego teatru amerykańskiego. Spójna z dorobkiem poetyckim, dramatycznym i filozoficznym Wrighta Lemma odsłania szerokie intelektualne horyzonty poety, które pozwalają mu skonstruować żywą, dynamiczną i złożoną wizję amerykańskiego życia. Wyczarowaną w jego sztuce „Amerykę” przenika wiele tradycji, które zazwyczaj oddziela się od siebie w dyskursie akademickim: zachodnioafrykańska kosmologia, filozofia oświeceniowa, teoria jazzu, starożytny teatr grecki, neobarokowe modyfikacje chrześcijańskiej teologii, prekolumbijskie autochtoniczne sposoby poznania, etymologiczne związki hiszpańskiego i gaelickiego, materialność poezji Johna Donne’a oraz życie zniewolonych Afrykanów w Nowym Świecie. Jaki jest cel teatralnego sztukmistrzostwa Wrighta? Jak podejść do tekstu o tak różnorodnych źródłach intelektualnych i literackich? Autor odpowiada na te pytania i podsumowuje wywód postulatem, by traktować Lemmę jako bardzo potrzebny punkt widzenia, z którego można zobaczyć czarny i amerykański teatr poza dobrze znanym terytorium Black Arts Movement.

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This essay presents Jay Wright’s play Lemma as a historiographical challenge and also as a piece of idiorrhythmic American theater. Consonant with his life’s work of poetry, dramatic literature, and philosophical writing, Lemma showcases Wright’s expansive intellectual framework with which he constructs vivid, dynamic, and complex visions of American life. The “America” conjured here is steeped in many traditions, traditions typically kept distinct by academic discourse, such as West African cosmology, Enlightenment philosophy, jazz music theory, Ancient Greek theater, neo-Baroque modifications of Christian theology, pre-Columbian indigenous ways of knowing, etymological connections between Spanish and Gaelic, the materiality of John Donne’s poetry, and the lives of enslaved Africans in the New World. What is the purpose of Wright’s theatrical conjuration? How do we approach a text with such a diverse body of intellectual and literary sources? The author answers these questions and ends with a call to treat Lemma as a much needed point of view that opens lines of sight into Black and American theater far outside the well-worn territory of the Black Arts Movement.

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Whiteness and the Black Fan Imagination: Making Meaning of Whiteness within the Geographies of NASCAR

The Christian Criteria for Assimilation: Racially Reading Christianity, Civility, and Social Belonging in the Modern Western World

«Lemma»: Jay Wright’s Idiorrhythmic American Theater