The Fear of Being Seen as White Losers by David Jackson

Author:David Jackson [Jackson, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910170144
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Publisher: Five Leaves
Published: 2015-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

The almost dazed repetition of ‘big’ here underlines the imagined threat of young black men supposedly invading the ‘naturalised’ tightness of the suspects’ white superiority and the security of their physically embodied, masculine identities. It’s the solidity and hardness of their embodied identities where the threat strikes most deeply. The suspects’ grip on the physical solidity of who they think they are seems in danger of being eroded. And there is also the anxiety, eating away at their confidence, that these black men might actually be harder than them if it came to a fight. Perhaps that’s why the suspects try and defend themselves through the abusive put-down shown by the repetition of ‘cunt’ and ‘nigger’. They cover up their anxieties through effeminising (‘cunt’) the imagined black menace and also reducing black men to an inferior slave position (‘nigger’).

The hardness of their heterosexualised masculinities is also severely challenged by their fearful imaginings connected to the black, male bouncer look:

Charley Martin: “Like when you see him straight away you don’t like the look of him.”

Neil Acourt: “He’s a bouncer.”

Charley Martin: “No this one he was a big cunt he’d all gold on him and everything.”

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