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

Playing Neoliberal Politics: Post-Racial and Post-Racist Strategies in "Same Love".

Dunn, Thomas R.