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- Title
Playing Neoliberal Politics: Post-Racial and Post-Racist Strategies in "Same Love".
- Authors
Dunn, Thomas R.
- Abstract
This essay argues that marriage equality discourses have successfully been used not only to advance GLBTQ rights but as a vehicle for re-securing neoliberalism after the 2008 Great Recession. Specifically, this essay analyzes how Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' s "Same Love" (featuring Mary Lambert) supports neoliberalism by forwarding antiblackness and circumscribed political subjectivities while urging support for marriage equality. Through appeals to minimization, multiracialism, and inverting oppression, "Same Love" demonstrates how avowedly progressive texts can simultaneously impede the freer and fairer world the text supposedly promotes.
- Subjects
NEOLIBERALISM; POSTRACIALISM; LEGAL status of LGBTQ people; GREAT Recession, 2008-2013; SAME-sex marriage
- Publication
Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies, 2016, Vol 13, Issue 3, p269
- ISSN
1479-1420
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1080/14791420.2016.1149201