Someone should do a think piece on the ways in which Ebola panic - TopicsExpress



          

Someone should do a think piece on the ways in which Ebola panic and fear of gay marriage are affecting the mid-term elections. From Hannah Giorgiss piece in the *Guardian*: Ebola now functions in popular discourse as a not-so-subtle, almost completely rhetorical stand-in for any combination of African-ness, blackness, foreign-ness and infestation – a nebulous but powerful threat, poised to ruin the perceived purity of western borders and bodies. Dead African bodies are the nameless placeholders for (unwarranted, racist) panic, a conversation topic too heavy for the dinner table yet light enough for supermarket aisles.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 03:15:19 +0000

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