the highest admiration for The arbiters of wartime justice thus transform the false her.” rape accusation into an opportunity to reproduce a racialized and gendered script of black disloyalty and white female patriotism. Madge becomes a national hero for charges of rape: the layers of mendacity, jingoism, and misogyny become “withdrawing” difficult to delaminate. White womanhood here enters a deeply ambivalent nexus of legal impunity, patriarchal overprotection, and sexual availability of the war effort. on behalf Meanwhile, Bob is tacitly positioned as a rapist not only of a white woman, but of the nation. Of course, the whole premise of a of is a ruse designed in “withdrawal charges” accordance with the needs of the racial military Keynsian equilibrium. This charade elevates interpellation of Bob into an official while Madge’s racist “public script” simultaneously unburdening the state of the need to determine the truth in a court of law. The dejuridicalization of the accused black subject keeps him simultaneously outside the law and inside the labor pool. Thus, in his final appearance before the disciplinary apparatus of the war corporation, Bob embodies the contradictions of the warfare state itself. The shipyard president proclaims sanctimoniously: You were given every opportunity to advance. You were the first Negro to be employed in a position of responsibility by our corporation and you were in a position to represent your race, to win for them do a thing like this, at a advantages heretofore denied….To time when Negroes are making such rapid progress, when Negro soldiers are earning the respect of the nation, and when Negro workers are being employed in all braches of industry is more than a disgrace to yourself, it is a betrayal of your people. This speech calls to assertion that Keynesianism the violence mind Negri’s “conceal[s] that [is] required to maintain this precarious controlled The president, in equilibrium.” claiming that Bob has betrayed the liberalizing norms of the warfare state, in fact carries out a crucial task of the racial military Keynesian order: the mystifying reduction of racial
the highest admiration for her.” The arbiters of wartime justice thus transform the false rape accusation into an opportunity to reproduce a racialized and gendered script of black disloyalty and white female patriotism. Madge becomes a national hero for “withdrawing” charges of rape: the layers of mendacity, jingoism, and misogyny become difficult to delaminate. White womanhood here enters a deeply ambivalent nexus of legal impunity, patriarchal overprotection, and sexual availability on behalf of the war effort. Meanwhile, Bob is tacitly positioned as a rapist not only of a white woman, but of the nation. Of course, the whole premise of a “withdrawal of charges” is a ruse designed in accordance with the needs of the racial military Keynsian equilibrium. This charade elevates Madge’s racist interpellation of Bob into an official “public script” while simultaneously unburdening the state of the need to determine the truth in a court of law. The dejuridicalization of the accused black subject keeps him simultaneously outside the law and inside the labor pool. Thus, in his final appearance before the disciplinary apparatus of the war corporation, Bob embodies the contradictions of the warfare state itself. The shipyard president proclaims sanctimoniously: You were given every opportunity to advance. You were the first Negro to be employed in a position of responsibility by our corporation and you were in a position to represent your race, to win for them advantages heretofore denied….To do a thing like this, at a time when Negroes are making such rapid progress, when Negro soldiers are earning the respect of the nation, and when Negro workers are being employed in all braches of industry is more than a disgrace to yourself, it is a betrayal of your people. This speech calls to mind Negri’s assertion that Keynesianism “conceal[s] the violence that [is] required to maintain this precarious controlled equilibrium.” The president, in claiming that Bob has betrayed the liberalizing norms of the warfare state, in fact carries out a crucial task of the racial military Keynesian order: the mystifying reduction of racial
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