Playing Neoliberal Politics: Post-Racial and Post-Racist Strategies in “Same Love”
2016; Routledge; Volume: 13; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14791420.2016.1149201
ISSN1479-4233
Autores Tópico(s)Gender Politics and Representation
ResumoThis essay argues that marriage equality discourses have successfully been used not only to advance GLBTQ rights but as a vehicle for re-securing neoliberalism after the 2008 Great Recession. Specifically, this essay analyzes how Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's "Same Love" (featuring Mary Lambert) supports neoliberalism by forwarding antiblackness and circumscribed political subjectivities while urging support for marriage equality. Through appeals to minimization, multiracialism, and inverting oppression, "Same Love" demonstrates how avowedly progressive texts can simultaneously impede the freer and fairer world the text supposedly promotes.
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