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Racial rhetoric in black and white

Situational whiteness in Francoist Spanish Guinea through Misión blanca

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ID2149442
AuthorsJm Persánch (0000-0002-6235-5881, Spanish Department, Lakeland University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume47
Issue7
Pages1478-1494
Publication date2024-05-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2023.2289152
OpenAlexW4389884496
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited23

This essay analyzes through the interactions of its racially encoded characters under the lens of whiteness. The objective is to locate the representational strategies that Francoist cultural production used to convey moral superiority through racial teachings. The study specifically examines Francoist practices of racial representation to suggest how Spanish whiteness may have been traditionally situational; that is, conceived as a highly rhetorical cultural tactic to assimilate non-whites into the fringes of Spanish whiteness, which in this historical period led to the totalization and silencing of racial dissidence. As a result, the essay will demonstrate how Francoist cinema displayed rhetorical race notions and situational whiteness in Africa to build relationships of moral superiority with regard to Spain's European counterparts

Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Race (biology · Representation (politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Situational ethics · Sociology · White (mutation · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Spanish Culture and Identity

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Citation span2024 - 2024 (1)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 5

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