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The whiteface clown has increasingly become the reactionary face of a white culture afraid of any actual reversal of hierarchies.

The Joker and the Politics of Whiteface
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Chris Perez

Chris Perez

Oct 9, 2019·1 min read

The clown isn’t in the hierarchy. I really think you’re missing the entire point of the character. The race-bait is so cringe and derivative at this point

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Cognitive science, health, and society.

  • Whiteface
  • Politics
  • Culture
  • Clowns
  • Whiteness

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