Project MUSE - Affect and Respectability Politics
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, “I don’t think looting is effective in itself. But thoughtless media accounts of looting miss the point.”
niggers stealing shit.
marginalized classes will receive their share of political influence and social standing not because democratic values and law require it but because they demonstrate their compatibility with the “mainstream” or non-marginalized class.
respectability politics seeks to realize collective aspirations
The signature of respectability politics is its disavowal of the legitimacy of black rage
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