Summary
In Matthew Abraham’s chapter, one of the two supremacist frameworks — with Zionism — against which the Black Lives Matter and Palestinian liberation movements converge: Black and Palestinian subjectivity emerges in relation to white supremacist and Zionist frameworks that position the Black and Palestinian body in a subordinate position requiring continual surveillance (Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, PDF p.8 / printed p.84).
Details
- Abraham argues the United States remains a white supremacist society based on a racial supremacist logic that placed people of color in a subordinate status, and that BLM provided ample reminders of this by raising consciousness of the intense surveillance Black and brown bodies face and of Black and brown lives cut short by state violence (PDF p.10 / printed p.86).
- Russell Rickford, as Abraham presents him, explained that the colonization of Palestine is wholly about white supremacy, suggesting Zionism is grounded in a racialist supremacist logic that meshes with white supremacy (PDF p.8 / printed p.84).
- Expressions of white supremacy by Steve Bannon supporters were, in Abraham’s opening argument, tolerable because Bannon and the Breitbart constituency were reflexively pro-Israel (PDF p.3 / printed p.79).
Related pages
Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, Zionism, Black–Palestinian solidarity, Russell Rickford