An inserted black body makes invisible whiteness and its amnesiac temporality visible

Evidence

By inserting himself into a tableau of neoapartheid time, amidst those he calls by turns “leisure colonialists” and “leisure refugees,” Ndebele makes whiteness visible. He does so by unsettling the temporal and physical insularity of the archaic game lodge, which operates as both a nostalgic, amnesiac space of white refusal of apartheid’s aftermath and a contemporary expression of postapartheid South Africa’s reintegration into global tourist networks. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 519

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Total visibility and memorialization destroy an object’s power to trigger involuntary memory — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 172; The Black-crime stereotype physically alters visual perception, attention, and memory — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 403; Perception of bodies differs in original structure, not merely enrichment, from inanimate perception (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Total visibility and memorialization destroy an object’s power to trigger involuntary memory #corroborates (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 172
• The Black-crime stereotype physically alters visual perception, attention, and memory #complicates (0.75) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 403
• Perception of bodies differs in original structure, not merely enrichment, from inanimate perception #complicates (0.75)
• Active forgetting of blackness sustains twenty-first-century white supremacy #corroborates (0.75)
• Context and familiarity are overridden by skin color in white fear #complicates (0.72) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 197
• Unattended stimuli often go completely unseen even when physically present #corroborates (0.70) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 391
• Minimalist color fields can provoke visceral perceptual activity in the viewer #expands (0.70)