In Wake in Fright, a man in very white suit tries to get out of town, end of contract time. Whiter than white, thinks he has shaken off that hint of indentured labour.
Mike Hill and Tom Cohen, “Black Swans and Pop-up Militias: War and the ‘Re-rolling’ of Imagination”, Global South, 3:1 2009:
The key strokes and strikes by which we introduce an open dossier on “war” in its visible and invisible dimensions will also, clearly, be those of the typographic “key”—of the writing of tele-polemeology codes, war machines, and in the wars latent in critical impasses today, as a certain mutation has begun for which the global credit collapse may be, at once, mere catalyst and symptom.
Just over a decade after the conditional abolition of slavery in the US, laws were passed in many states prohibiting black people from using the same public accommodations as whites. Known as Jim Crow laws, they stipulated the demarcation of “separate but equal” spaces. That much is well-known, even if it remains important to underscore the sense in which racism – both here and in Australia – coincided with and was shaped by egalitarianism. There is more to be said about this but, for the moment, some notes on Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), as a prelude/footnote to a longer/later discussion on ‘passing.’
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