The Rhetorics of Color-The Rhetorics of Color-Blind Racism in Racefail Blind Racism in Racefail 0909

Presented at:Amazing, Fantastic, Weird:Science Fiction Studies in Texas SymposiumApril 15, 2010

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Eduardo Bonilla-Silva SchemaSchemaAnything But Race: It’s class, not race I am not a racist, but… Projection: They're prejudiced/ dislike

white people Racial Epithets: Jim Crow vs. Post Civil

Rights

Some of my Best Friends/Girlfriend or boyfriend/Spouse are…

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Eduardo Bonilla-Silva SchemaSchema Taking All Sides: There are good/bad

arguments on both sides, but  Abstract Liberalism: Equal Opportunity;

Cannot force change; Economic Liberalism; Merit  Naturalization: It's just the way people are; We

all do it; Self Segregation

Cultural Racism: It's Their Culture; They have different values

  Minimization of Racism: It's better now than in

the past; They're playing the race card

Additions to SchemaAdditions to Schema

Racial Epithets w/in Fan CommunityOrcs, Orcing, Trolling Hordes,

Nithlings

Rationale: "Canadian" used to mean "nigger" by Southern white racists

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/297666

http://www.slaw.ca/2008/01/18/the-friday-fillip-86/

Additions to SchemaAdditions to Schema

Faux Demand for “Education” (Yeloson)

Asks for information then does not follow-up or do searches

Answers met with challenge/demand for more proof

Basic File Statistics (UAM)Basic File Statistics (UAM)BEAR LAKE

Length

Words in text 28809 7331

Sentences in text 1991 463

Text Complexity

Av. Word Length 4.6 4.69

Av. Sentence Length 14.4 15.8

Lexical Density

Lexemes per sentence 7.58 8.36

Lexemes % of text 52.43 52.83

Reference Density (% of tokens

1 person Reference 4.0508 3.533

2 person Reference 1.2877 1.528

3 person Reference 3.1066 2.469

Bear and Lake StatisticsBear and Lake StatisticsOrig Poster # Com # Agree # Disagree Both/And

Jay Lake 69 16 5 3

E Bear/MAT 305 34 1 4

Thread Topics (Lake)Thread Topics (Lake)1. America multicultural; race is label (6)2. "Damned if you do, damned if you

don't" (2)3. Objectivity (no cultural appropriation)

(18)4. Gender (male authors/female

characters; female authors/male characters) (2)

5. Own work (7)6. Human rights vs. censorship, artistic

truth (6)

Thread Topics (Bear’s)Thread Topics (Bear’s)Guy Gavriel Kay (7)Pattern Recognition (theory) (4)Albinos in literature (18)Historical Inequalities (fiction; SU, FBI) (14) BBC (4)Ellen Klages (7)"Damned if you do, damned if you don't" (20) Good characters not stereotype AXE (5) Af-Am Immigration BritainWrite autobiographical story and told it was bad (8)Research "getting out more" (3)WASP as Exotic; Europeans as OTHER/AU (8)Furries, GLBT (12)WASP/WHITE (62 total) lesbian separatism, Wicca

Major foci of disagreements in this thread Defends individual allyIn-jokes about 80s lesbians

Research 2 (asking people) (9)Privilege (13) religionUK not PC (8)

Works CitedWorks CitedBear, Elizabeth. http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1544111.htmlBidisha. Guardian online. Blog Entry. January 25.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/25/science-fiction-diversity-gender

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. 2nd ed. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Fanhistory. http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Race_wank#The_Cultural_Appropriation_Discussion_of_Doom

Fanlore. http://fanlore.org/wiki/RaceFail_%2709Feminist SF Wiki. http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=RaceFail_09Henry, Liz. http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/148996.html?

view=2476804#cmt2476804Metafilter's "A tempest" in LiveJournal January 19, 2009

http://www.metafilter.com/78433/Science-Fiction-LiveJournal-and-Magical-Negros (dated January 19, 2009);

Lake, Jay. http://jaylake.livejournal.com/1692287.htmlMerrick, Helen. The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction

Feminisms. Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2009.Rydra Wong's Comprehensive List: http://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/148996.htmlShapiro, Laura. White Privilege Icon.Yeloson. “Educate me!” http://yeloson.livejournal.com/718724.html