Commentary: On affect and race under capitalism

This brief commentary considers how the papers in the special issue on “Reconstituting Selves and Others: Racialization, Voicing, and Resemiotization in Raciolinguistic Perspective” address issues of affect, race, and commodification under capitalism. It discusses how the affect of racialized others...

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Published in:International journal of the sociology of language 2020-09, Vol.2020 (265), p.129-131
Main Author: Lo, Adrienne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
affect
Capitalism
Commodification
Emotions
Race
Racialization
Sociolinguistics
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Summary:This brief commentary considers how the papers in the special issue on “Reconstituting Selves and Others: Racialization, Voicing, and Resemiotization in Raciolinguistic Perspective” address issues of affect, race, and commodification under capitalism. It discusses how the affect of racialized others gets tamed, commodified, and redirected in new media sites and it highlights the different types of affect that have drawn researchers’ attention.
ISSN:0165-2516
1613-3668
DOI:10.1515/ijsl-2020-2106