Trafficking in Antiblackness
Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice
Seiten
2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1707-3 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1707-3 (ISBN)
Lyndsey P. Beutin analyzes how campaigns to end human trafficking—often described as “modern-day slavery”—invoke the memory of transatlantic slavery to support political agendas based in antiblackness.
In Trafficking in Antiblackness Lyndsey P. Beutin analyzes how campaigns to end human trafficking—often described as “modern-day slavery”—invoke the memory of transatlantic slavery to support positions ultimately grounded in antiblackness. Drawing on contemporary antitrafficking visual culture and media discourse, she shows how a constellation of media, philanthropic, NGO, and government actors invested in ending human trafficking repurpose the history of transatlantic slavery and abolition in ways that undermine contemporary struggles for racial justice and slavery reparations. The recurring narratives, images, and figures such as “slavery in Africa,” “Arab slave traders,” and “Black incapacity for self-governance” discursively turn Black people across the diaspora into the enslavers of the past and present in place of white Americans and Europeans. Doing so, Beutin contends, creates a rhetorical defense against being held liable for slavery’s dispossessions and violence. Despite these implications, Beutin demonstrates that antitrafficking discourse remains popular and politically useful for former slaving nations and their racial beneficiaries because it refashions historic justifications for white supremacy into today’s abolition of slavery.
In Trafficking in Antiblackness Lyndsey P. Beutin analyzes how campaigns to end human trafficking—often described as “modern-day slavery”—invoke the memory of transatlantic slavery to support positions ultimately grounded in antiblackness. Drawing on contemporary antitrafficking visual culture and media discourse, she shows how a constellation of media, philanthropic, NGO, and government actors invested in ending human trafficking repurpose the history of transatlantic slavery and abolition in ways that undermine contemporary struggles for racial justice and slavery reparations. The recurring narratives, images, and figures such as “slavery in Africa,” “Arab slave traders,” and “Black incapacity for self-governance” discursively turn Black people across the diaspora into the enslavers of the past and present in place of white Americans and Europeans. Doing so, Beutin contends, creates a rhetorical defense against being held liable for slavery’s dispossessions and violence. Despite these implications, Beutin demonstrates that antitrafficking discourse remains popular and politically useful for former slaving nations and their racial beneficiaries because it refashions historic justifications for white supremacy into today’s abolition of slavery.
Lyndsey P. Beutin is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Reparations and the Rise of Antitrafficking Discourse 31
2. Blaming Black Mothers 61
Interlude: #FreeCyntoiaBrown 93
3. When Slavery’s Not Black 101
4. Deceptive Empiricism 133
Interlude: #Charlottesville 165
5. History Is Antiblackness 173
Afterword 193
Notes 197
Bibliography 237
Index 257
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.03.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 13 illustrations |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4780-1707-4 / 1478017074 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-1707-3 / 9781478017073 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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