Dr Rachel Bloul, School of Sociology, The Australian National University

Larry Saha Seminar Room 2175, Level 2, Haydon-Allen Building,

The Australian National University

In this paper, I am concerned with the role of disgust in racialized relations. Of particular importance is the role of disgust as a moral emotion, which constructs the racialized person as an inferior being whose powerlessness is offset (in the minds of the racist) by their ascribed powers of defilement. Both the racialized’s construction as object of disgust and their attributed ‘power of defilement’ help throw light on the extraordinary violence of racist exclusion.