What is it about?
This paper advances a suffocation theory of racism. It argues that after slavery ended racism shifted from the materialism of the black body to air and breathing. Black lives mattered only because it was materially useful and once that usefulness ceased, blackness no longer mattered. Suffocation theory of racism is the slow invisible violence against blackness that is exemplified in the death of George Floyd.
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Why is it important?
It sheds new light on contemporary racism.
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I believe that this paper makes a contribution to the discourse on racism.
Dr. Gabriel O. Apata
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This page is a summary of: ‘I Can't Breathe’: The Suffocating Nature of Racism, Theory Culture & Society, September 2020, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0263276420957718.
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