Basic woke lexicon where we still learn things...
Whiteness and whiteness? Non-whiteness? Racialization? You are lost Lost? Courage, we will help you. All quotes are rigorously taken from articles in academic journals that have – they say – undergone double blind review and peer validation. Or pairs. As mind-blowing as that may seem.
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America (n. masc.): A Western country that symbolizes capitalism, whiteness, exploitation, and systemic segregation. This is why its language (see English) is used to express the concepts (see Concepts) of decolonial sociology.
I have chosen to translate " white supremacy " as "white hegemony" because, in French, the word "suprématie" (supremacy) tends to refer to organized nationalist and racist movements. In English, " white supremacy " refers not only to these groups but also to a mentality inherited from European colonization that takes the white race as its point of reference.
https://reseaudecolonial.org/2017/10/01/pour-une-anthropologie-decoloniale-au-service-de-la-justice-sociale/#_edn9
English (n. masc.): the language of the colonizer, thanks to which we can express ourselves better than in our miserable ethnic language. In English, concepts (see Concepts) and notions (see nothing at all; notions are inferior to concepts) are clearer and speak for themselves. The language of the colonizer (not the organ) is concise, clear, transparent, intuitive, and reflects the essence of thought better than French, for example. Thus, many original approximations—which wouldn't pass any journal review—take on a different air in English. To say someone is "white" sounds racist; to say they express their "whiteness" aggressively sounds intelligent. To talk about the "cuddle society" sounds a bit weak; to talk about "care" establishes you as a sociologist. So, a little morning practice . Consider the following statement taken from a very serious research journal:
The concept of whiteness allows us to identify, analyze, and critique the power dynamics at work in the social and cultural construction of white hegemony.
https://www.cairn.info/revue-diogene-2017-2-page-110.htm
This quote, therefore, could be translated as: "the concept (see Concept) of whiteness explains white power." In other words, the word coined specifically to illustrate the thesis being defended. No kidding. Given the absurdity of the French expression, we can better understand the value of using the English loanword " whiteness, " which lends substance to the statement, depth to the thought that would otherwise crash and burn in the face of controversy before the discussion even gets off the ground.
The colonization of minds by the dominant American culture is illustrated in the most sophisticated scholarly literature, for example in this article curiously titled in French-American Creole "Whiter than white. A critical study of works on whiteness " :
Unlike in the United States or Great Britain, "racial" questions remain largely a scientific "unthought" for French researchers in the social sciences and, in fact, work in English on questions of "race" remained, until recently, poorly known in France.
https://www.cairn.info/les-nouvelles-frontieres-de-la-societe-francaise–9782707174536-page-129.htm
“Study on Whiteness ”: the French word having disappeared, one senses that the author’s mind, colonized by American thought, makes our undertaking to decolonize decolonialism all the more urgent. It should be added that on the thesis registration website, no fewer than 240 theses are written around the notion of “whiteness,” 13 of which include the term “blanché” (whiteness) and 55 around “racialism.” By comparison, there are only 15 theses devoted to epenthesis. That says it all.
Anthropology (n. fem.): Sociology. See Ethnology.
“Sex” is indeed a category of ordinary thought (using quotation marks). But to conduct a sociological or anthropological analysis , we must use a distinct concept that allows us, precisely, to measure the gap in representations. I propose that the objective of gender studies should be, at this stage, to cease working with ordinary definitions.
https://journals.openedition.org/jda/5267
White (n. or adj., epicene): an intellectual sociological construct that has nothing to do with skin or color. That's why we say "white." "White" refers to all those who do not identify with an identity undermined by majority currents. The Irish and Jews are white: "Thus, groups like the Irish, Italians, or Jews in the United States, who were not perceived as white at the beginning of their immigration, have gradually been incorporated into the majority group (Ignatiev, 1995; Jacobson, 1999; Brodkin Sacks, 1998)." [source: here ]. We will add:
it is about valuing epistemic diversity to challenge white hegemony and the domination of Eurocentric thought (Grosfoguel, 2010).
Source
Whiteness (n. fem.): Claim or assignment of belonging by essentialization to the majority culture.
This means the possibility for the majority (in this case, the White and the masculine) to speak and to be spoken (in the sense of designating, naming)
https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-du-genre-2017-2-page-205.htm
Capitalism [Where cacapitalism] (very masculine n.): 1- smelly substance (here) like everything that is masculine (see Oppressive) invented by the dominant white male (here) to strengthen domination over men. white.es dominated and nested categories deracialized intersectional. The first white reactionary in Western culture – Aristotle (here) – promoted the pernicious idea of individual property and private enterprise, fortunately undermined by the glorious Soviet proletariat.
2- As a system of social organization, it exacerbates the capacities of human beings pushed towards permanent creativity by stimulating competition which is the call for class, race and gender war.
One of the first to defend private property was the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC). He considered that property is one of the pleasures of life and that man cares more about what belongs to him than to what belongs to everyone else.
https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Aristote/98715
Racialized researchers (n. epicene): Sociology is concerned about the forms of pressure that could weigh on academic freedoms as well as on the freedom of expression of researchers.·s and more researchers·s racialized·e·s on which·le·s weigh ideological suspicions for reasons that only the whitened can understand: talking about racialism, whiteness, passing game religious, language reform in education or racialized culture is nevertheless legitimate. It is unfair to suspect them of lacking objectivity: moreover, no one has ever been able to prove that this was the case. None corpus does not attest to it.
More seriously, in the past we spoke of "researchers" while simply omitting to mention their sex or ethnicity, which supposedly interested no one, as long as they produced knowledge. For the internationalist PCF, for example, the question of ethnicity had no reason to exist, even if Marxism surprisingly managed to create experimental faculties (source). This paleontological era of research ends with the advent of gender, race and class which exclude “researchers”. The place of the intellectual must be given back to the “racialized” researcher. In an inclusivist concern, without any racism or concern for exclusion: on the contrary.
Dismantling (noun, masculine, but felt feminine): A deconstructivist performance in which the researcher objectively attacks symbols of oppression felt by others. Contrary to popular belief, it is a sought-after term found in academic presentations and theses at Paris VIII:
Both have dedicated themselves to dismantling appearances, hunting down automatic behaviors, and challenging the false security linked to stereotypes and the predetermination of social behaviors.
https://www.theses.fr/1999PA081657 (Thesis)
The act of unbolting is the natural consequence of decolonial research; for after having searched well, the clairvoyant researcher cannot help but reveal the true nature of the world around him to his closest friends. To do this, armed with his wrench, he knocks down statues and destroys the ideas of adversaries – but with respect for diversity.
Decolonial (writing) (n. very feminine): Visibility of the French language freed from academic censorship. Inclusive writing is prescribed to fight against white heteropatriarchy.
The fight against “separatism” has become a national priority […] We consulted several academics and a political scientist who have made intersectional and decolonial issues a major part of their work. […] Norman Ajari wrote a dissertation entitled “Race and Violence: Franz Fanon in the Postcolonial Era” and is also the author of *Dignity or Death: Ethics and Politics of Race* , published by La Découverte (2019). He currently teaches in Philadelphia and has held a professorship in the United States.
https://www.bondyblog.fr/societe/education/lassociation-des-chercheurs-de-la-pensee-critique-avec-le-terrorisme-est-une-accusation-tres-grave/
A nagging question: "In the political act of affixing the mark of the feminine as if it were a homogeneous category, do the defenders of inclusive writing not reproduce the same claim to universality as their white sisters and brothers of the 60s and 70s?" 1.
Heteropatriarchal domination (n. fem. but still masculine): A key operational concept from the sociology of struggle, waged exclusively by white men who own real or symbolic capital. It is explained by the consumption of meat stolen from women (source: here , thesis 2005). So deeply ingrained in our consciousness that it goes unnoticed, it is exercised:
"in the name of a symbolic principle known and recognized by the dominant as well as by the dominated, a language (or a pronunciation), a lifestyle (or a way of thinking, speaking or acting) and, more generally, a distinctive property, emblem or stigma, of which the most symbolically efficient is this perfectly arbitrary and non-predictable bodily property that is the color of the skin"
(P. Bourdieu)
Male domination is omnipresent and universal (men dominate women, children and domestic animals, cf. Corinne Fortier), it covers all areas of social activity and arrogates to itself the right not to construct itself through a narrative:
The white male alone has the right to represent everyone, the generality, the universal: this is certainly the privilege of whiteness and masculinity to be able to name according to one's own terms, irreducible to any tendency of the group"
https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-du-genre-2017-2-page-205.htm
The "dirty hands of the dominant man " leave their mark even on grammar; domination is expressed there through the imposition of masculine agreements and the use of masculine forms to designate the generic. Hence the absolute necessity of intersectionality.
Inclusive writing (n. fem.): 1- Salutary enterprise of decolonization of spelling intended to fight against the Machiavellian strategy of "invisibilization" (see Invisibilization) of women by Men (see White) by the insertion of cabalistic signs or obscure talismans fighting against masculinist black magic (see Masculinist).
So, we write "blanc.he.s" but we read "Abject Colon and Pardonable Colonne". Which is still more visible.
2- Since 2019, moral and courtesy precept freeing itself from runes to use encompassing periphrases. Thus, we no longer say "Dear friends" but "Dear friends and dear friends", or even according to one's degree of awakening in the decolonial faith: "dear.es friend and friends" - emphasizing the midpoint (see Radicalism). This is inclusive.
Students (n. epicene plural): a discourse concept referring to a category of dominated, sometimes racialized, individuals. They are less dominated when they are white, thanks to the dermochromatic privilege they did not choose (see Possibility of de-whitening). The submission of this population group to the Power and Desire of the dominant class is artificially created by the systemic racism of the State, which imposes racial and gendered subordination upon them within inequitable hierarchical relationships. This category is exposed to ontological violence inscribed in Western metaphysics by a structural power relation expressed through the system of subjectivation of colonial knowledge.
Ethnology (n. fem.): Sociology. See Linguistics.
The first wave of feminist criticism in France (sociology and ethnology)
https://journals.openedition.org/jda/5267
We will also read:
Remarkably, the primitivist ideology that one might believe to be the business of ethnologists alone proves to be essential to the foundation of sociology.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25132228?seq=1
Far right (feminine noun, but felt masculine): a spatial expression referring to the extreme of the concept, synonymous with evil. It encompasses all those who do not understand the emancipatory necessity of socio-historical-political-linguistic decolonialism and question its epistemological foundations. A twilight nebula including anti-communists, fundamentalists, Chouans, members of the Sacré-Coeur militia, anti-Semites, supporters of Israel, anti-Arab racists, pro-Palestinians, white bourgeois feminists, Jewish Zionists, pro-Zionist Gentiles, reactionary psychoanalysts (here ), left-wing philosophers who are mistaken , anti-Marxists, conservatives, revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, defenders of secularism, Catholics, anarchists…
Feminization (of job titles) (n. fem.): a welcome undertaking to decolonize job titles by creating feminine words intended to reassure lawyers, directors, novelists, university professors, bosses, and all women in positions of power that we understand they are the ones in charge. Not to be confused with inclusive writing (see inclusive writing).
Feminism (n. fem.): or "feminist critique": Sociology.
The first wave of feminist criticism in France (sociology and ethnology) freed the term “sex” from the matrix of biology.
https://journals.openedition.org/jda/5267
Woman (n. fem.): a metaphysical category that can refer to the observable reality by which we identify the victims of a system of oppression (see also Man). However, we must be careful not to fall into simplistic and age-old oppositions such as "Man = war / Woman = love": this is a patriarchal cliché. The opposition designated here is sociological (Man is a dominant warrior; woman, a victim of heteropatriarchal exploitation (see Heteropatriarchal Domination)).
Gender, in fact, is not only an intellectual knowledge. It is also and above all a feeling, an experience, a conviction or an obviousness for most humans, by virtue of which each individual indefectibly experiences himself as belonging to one of the two genders, masculine or feminine.
https://www.cairn.info/revue-annuel-de-l-apf-2015-1-page-159.htm
Can a woman be a white man? Yes, absolutely, insofar as "woman" and "white" are sociological constructs. It is therefore not an ontological question, as in traditional philosophy, but a question of the degree of integration into the majority culture. (source: here )
Heterosexuality (n. fem.): an oppressive political system built on the falsely scientific definition of sexual difference, which supposedly implies the binary division of humanity into social classes of women and men from which one can escape [source: here ]. It is the cornerstone of capitalism, because heterosexuality presupposes the absence of wages for reproductive labor. It is characterized by the systemic violence imposed on society. It relies on an oppressive system characterized by rape (physical, consensual) perpetrated by bosses, fathers, and neighbors.
Man (n. most often masc.): a sociological [or discursive 1 ] construct – disconnected from any biological relationship – designating the beneficiaries of a system of oppression. Moreover, as they say in physical education:
It is now accepted that gender is a social construct referring to a system of norms and stereotypes linked to sex producing hierarchies between men and women.
https://www.cairn.info/revue-recherches-en-didactiques-2014-2-page-133.htm
Synonym: dominant, boss, father, exploiter, colonist, master, exploiter, profiteer, capitalist, white, evil, devil.
Identity (n.f.): The contradictory nature of that which possesses a sociological, biological, genetic, and cultural definition. A subject of contestation when consensual, it is imposed by the individual on their environment without consultation or prior notice. Pessoa's poetic affirmation:
"I am in various ways other than a self whose existence I don't know."
PESSOA Fernando, The path of the serpent, "The non-existent clique", Letters, journal pages and thoughts on the self and others , “A Room of Mirrors,” op. cit., p. 170.
This statement takes on its full meaning when it leaves the literary realm (metaphor [see Metaphor] not existing, the literary is seriously undermined) to enter directly into the daily reality of a television program where a white bearded man can, without flinching or being contradicted, assert "that he is a woman . " Beyond the question of the binary worldview imposed by the patriarchal cultural constraints of the Abrahamic religions, the question arises of identity claims when they contradict gender affirmation:
There are also surprisingly high numbers of lesbian trans women and surprisingly few gay trans men (Motmans, Meier & T'Sjoen, 2010).
http://www.infotransgenre.be/m/identite/concepts/preference-sexuelle/
In the example above, we will be surprised by the adverb “surprisingly” which shows how urgent it is to decolonize decolonialism.
Intersectionality (n.): Interdisciplinarity applied to the study or denunciation of whiteness (see White). "At once a tool, a method, and an object of research, intersectionality varies in its uses and definitions (Bilge, 2009, 2010; Fassin et al., 2015)" [source: here ]
Invisibility (n.): the magical power of language that renders certain majority minorities inaccessible to both sight and sound. This state primarily characterizes social and gendered groups, essentially women, constructed by men, like all other categories of the oppressed ( here ). This invisibility stems from a shared agreement among the manufacturers of language ( here ), pianos, and medicines ( here ), who aspire to global male hegemony. The most invisibly rendered categories of women: judges, lawyers, professors, authors, writers, surgeons, and ministers.
Linguistics (n. of – in – fem.): Sociology. See Feminism.
Male (n. very masculine): Evil. (see White)
Masculinist (n. very masc.): colonist. Synonym: "white" or "fascist". See "evil".
Metaphor (n. fem.): a figure of speech that does not exist, like any trope for that matter. See on this subject in particular P. Schulz, Saussure and Figurative Meaning—or Why Metaphor Does Not Exist , Les Cahiers du CIEL, University of Paris, 2003. Thus, speaking of the "identity trap" or the "border man" to be fought is NOT a metaphor.
Non-whiteness (n. fem.): To claim a cultural identity opposed to whiteness.
"This discourse paradoxically goes hand in hand with the idea that non-whiteness is non-European (El-Tayeb, 2011). In other words, Europeanness is tacitly associated with whiteness, which thus constitutes an implicit norm, while non-white European citizens, who are undervalued in racial relations (Guillaumin, 2002; Ndiaye, 2008), suffer structural discrimination."
https://journals.openedition.org/traces/6414 ; https://www.cairn.info/encyclopedie-critique-du-genre–9782707190482-page-539.htm
Oppressive (adj. always masc.): Attribute of any being or technique – with the exception of art 1 – which exerts an objective constraint on the subject revealing non-oppressive counter-techniques, which are the object of good and true sociology.
The case study is presented thereafter using the anti-oppressive language favored by the students involved.
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-981-13-6969-8_2
Racialization (n. fem.): Jean-Paul Payet writes that "the concealment of ethnicity in schools seems to lead to the covert implementation of a series of subtle discriminations against children of foreign origin and their families" (source: 1992, p. 60 ). For example, we might consider the notion of the racialization of sexism:
"One issue is to know if there are specific experiences and processes of ethno-racial and gender-based marginalization at school, which cannot be analyzed solely through the prism of social class relations. For example, can the construction of figures of danger, submission and radicalism that surround families and students categorized as Muslims [Hajjat and Mohammed, 2013; Orange, 2016] be read through the prism of the "racialization of sexism" [Hamel, 2005] by and within the school institution?"
https://www.cairn.info/revue-travail-genre-et-societes-2019-1-page-147.htm#
Racialization as an ongoing process questions research:
This doctoral research examines the construction of subjects and identities (individual and collective) in a French colonial and postcolonial context in the 20th century, in which race and skin color are structuring markers of self-awareness , otherness and social relations.
https://www.theses.fr/2014PA070026
Religion (n. fem. but actually masc.): A Christian, Western, heteropatriarchal, cis and therefore white invention resulting from "cognitive imperialism" and "epistemic violence 1 ". These are the exclusive property of religious studies.
“Christian invention only relevant in a Western context” (CNRS source).
https://www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-des-religions/article/2020/11/15/le-concept-de-religion-est-une-invention-chretienne-seulement-pertinente-dans-un-cadre-occidental_6059789_6038514.html
Example: “Christianity is a religion. Islam is not.”
Seminar (n. masc.): a type of colonization of university space by masculinist masturbatory production, as evidenced by the etymological root "seed" of the word. Moreover, when attending a "seminar," one hears "seed" and avoids listening to the speaker because it's disgusting. It is therefore a gerontolectal variation of heteropatriarchal vocabulary, currently being deconstructed. From now on, we will speak of "ovular," which will save us from having to go boil an egg.
Meaning of words (n. masc.): An old concept (syn. "thing," "stuff" – see Concept) of Western philosophy, superseded by that of social construction, against which the individual struggles, opposing the essentialization of identity with a personal affirmation of their own feelings, whether personal or communal (which amount to the same thing). Ex: "This white man is a woman of color" (see Man; see Whiteness; see Woman; see Woman of Color).
Science (n. fem.): the state that corresponds to the will to know
to discover things as they really are, regardless of what people have previously claimed and what they currently desire
norbert elias The Social Dynamics of Science. Sociology of Knowledge and Science, p.239. I followed my own path, p.74
It must be progressive (because otherwise, it's not science) and exclude all activism, except that of true inclusive queer, non-white feminist science. Its aim is to seek the true foundations of discrimination and oppression, distinguishing them from false, reactionary, and illusory explanations. Based on empirical methods, it is careful not to distance itself from its object of study when it concerns human beings, so as not to reify them ( here ). It is independent of dominant discourse, politics, and research funding plans. It is strictly reserved for young people, preferably people of color, and certain enlightened retirees who meet objective scientific standards, carefully defined by the intersectional inclusion method.
sexism (n.masc.): paradoxical achievement of genetically determined psychological balance acquired by inheritance, at the same time as it is built not the discourse on culture. It affects beings of male sex and gender. It is characterized by the syndrome known as "dirty paws everywhere" (see "heteropatriarchal domination"), by not wanting to clear the table at the end of the meal, by practicing the "male gaze" and "eye rape" in a uncontrolledMore intentional. Observed in the Paleolithic era by contemporary researchers (here), this innate-constructed disease varies according to geographical areas: for example, it is more present among the Mundugomors than among the Arapesh (here). They do not cure it, but the condition can be treated by deconstructing the discourse of the guilty gender.
Nb: not to be confused with “masculinism”, which is an essentialist identity assignment of avowed sexists.
Structures (n. masc.): constraints exerted on the free thought of oneself and the redefinition of the identity of each person's feelings, instructed in its foundations by the Republican Institutions (school, language, secularism) which are "Caudine forks" subjecting populations to a diktat AS the colonizer formerly subjected the colonized to the oppressive dictatorship. From there comes the idea that we must get rid of it.
Be careful, since the metaphor (see Metaphor) does not exist, this is not a metaphorical colonialism (QED) but a real political oppression exercised by an illegitimate power. Like any power. Except academic.
"The postcolonial approach allows us to imagine, in concrete terms, an 'alternative feminism' freed from the constraints of the Republic and secularism. In this respect, the detour through feminisms of the Global South, in this case in the land of Islam, allows us to relativize republican feminism with universal scope."
https://www.cairn.info/revue-tiers-monde-2012-1-page-125.htm
Universalism (n. masc.) – a concept to be deconstructed, like all concepts, because it is based on erasing identity differences, rendering skin color invisible (see Invisibility), and neglecting ethnic affiliation in favor of often appropriated cultural affiliation. Universalism disregards the religion of the Other, fosters Islamophobia, and lies at the root of ethno-racial discrimination within the state apparatus, because it seeks to obscure racial origins, which are part of the nation-building process. While acknowledging that race exists only as a phenomenon of discourse, E. Balibar specifies that racism is a type of universalism ( here ) and that discussions about racism contribute to turning racists into universalists who question their own identity. Racism is thus a form of the universalism of difference, and universalism is the universal essence of the particularism that underpins identity ( here ). There is also sexism which is part of universalism (see Sexism).
Victim (feminine noun): polysemiotic sign, used in various fields of construction and deconstruction studies.
1/ non-white women or women in the process of becoming white, racialized men, women, men, children who are mistaken for women, men and children when they are not (see here ), migrants, oppressed Palestinians, fat people, thin people, deaf people, short people, tall people, blind people, disabled people, students, indigenous people of the republic, indigenous people of America, fat people, lost people, desperate people, young people, racialized disadvantaged people, domestic animals, plants, etc.
2/ individuals who are accused of using pronouns they did not choose.
3 / ( religious ) Islam in France, people shot by the police and to all citizens oppressed by state racism.
White (n. or adj., epicene): see Blanc.he.s, but better because it is clearer because it is in the American language.
Wok.e (n. epicene): traditional dish of Chinese cuisine (see Cultural Appropriation).
