{"title":"The Covington smile: Norms and forms of violence in the age of the White Awakening","authors":"P. Salazar","doi":"10.47348/acta/2022/a9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay is a detailed study of an event that took place in January 2019 in Washington DC on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It was a confrontation between Catholic schoolboys returning from a March for Life and mainly Native Americans led by an Omaha elder. The ‘faceoff’ between the two central protagonists, Nicholas Sandmann and Nathan Phillips, went viral as the embodiment and enactment of white racism. It occasioned massive lawsuits for defamation against major media corporations. By applying critical rhetoric, this essay intends to show that repressed forms and norms of rites, sacrifice and religious artefacts were re-activated and performed anew during this encounter.","PeriodicalId":90407,"journal":{"name":"Acta juridica (Cape Town, South Africa)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta juridica (Cape Town, South Africa)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.47348/acta/2022/a9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay is a detailed study of an event that took place in January 2019 in Washington DC on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It was a confrontation between Catholic schoolboys returning from a March for Life and mainly Native Americans led by an Omaha elder. The ‘faceoff’ between the two central protagonists, Nicholas Sandmann and Nathan Phillips, went viral as the embodiment and enactment of white racism. It occasioned massive lawsuits for defamation against major media corporations. By applying critical rhetoric, this essay intends to show that repressed forms and norms of rites, sacrifice and religious artefacts were re-activated and performed anew during this encounter.
这篇文章详细研究了2019年1月在华盛顿特区林肯纪念堂台阶上发生的一件事。这是一场冲突,双方是参加完“生命游行”(March for Life)回来的天主教男生,以及一位奥马哈长老领导的主要是印第安人。两位主角尼古拉斯·桑德曼(Nicholas Sandmann)和内森·菲利普斯(Nathan Phillips)之间的“对峙”作为白人种族主义的体现和实施而在网上疯传。它引发了针对主要媒体公司的大量诽谤诉讼。通过运用批判的修辞,本文试图表明,在这次遭遇中,被压抑的仪式、祭祀和宗教文物的形式和规范被重新激活和重新表演。