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Saving whiteness: spectacular violence and the politics of white supremacist patriarchy
Feminist Media Studies ( IF 1.953 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 , DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1887918
Lucia M. Palmer 1
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ABSTRACT

The frequency with which women are subjected to sexual assault along migratory corridors travelling through Mexico and into the United States is a disturbing phenomenon, one that has been spotlighted by human rights watches and organizations in advocating for migrant rights. Frustratingly, this sexual violence has also become a point of focus for nativist groups and militias patrolling the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, leveraged as evidence of the threat of a porous border. This paper investigates the intersections in the racialized and gendered processes that reaffirm the United States as a white, patriarchal, and heteronormative national space, by spotlighting the ways in which vigilante and nativist groups use spectacles of sexual violence against migrant women as justifications for their surveillance activities. Through images and narratives of migrant women as victims to violent Mexican men, vigilantes and nativist groups objectify and other these women in order to simultaneously disavow their own violence and position themselves as the privileged occupants and guardians of the United States.



中文翻译:

拯救白人:壮观的暴力和白人至上主义父权制政治

摘要

妇女在穿越墨西哥和进入美国的移民走廊上频繁遭受性侵犯是一种令人不安的现象,人权观察组织和倡导移民权利的组织已经注意到这一现象。令人沮丧的是,这种性暴力也成为了在美墨边境巡逻的本土主义团体和民兵关注的焦点,并被用作边境漏洞百出威胁的证据。本文调查了种族化和性别化过程中的交叉点,这些过程再次确认美国是一个白人、父权制和异性恋规范的国家空间,重点关注民团和本土主义团体利用对移民妇女的性暴力场面作为其监视理由的方式活动。

更新日期:2021-02-12
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