Sexualized racial violence grants both mastery and forbidden intimacy

Evidence

Sexualized racial violence does double duty: it provides the sense of power, control, and mastery and, at the same time, it offers an intimacy to what it is forbidden to desire or to see as human. The ‘lynched Black man becomes a source of sexual pleasure to those who kill him,’ a receptacle for hate and fears and forbidden feelings. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 168

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 168