none 10.21983/P3.0287.1.00 punctum books punctum books 31179 175603592 3837468 20260602101246 10.21983 2026-06-02T10:13:16Z 2025-04-25T04:57:36Z 0 Dolsy Smith George Washington University https://ror.org/00y4zzh67 White Male Privilege, My Senses, and the Story I Cannot Tell We are living through the wrack of the White Male. As the compact between social hierarchy, inherited privilege, and race (reinforced by gender and other normative categories) shows signs of buckling, his rage and resentment threaten us all. For he is a thing possessed: possessed by his own love of possession, and born to a sense that the world belongs to him and him alone. The spoils of oppression lie coiled inside him, a glut he can’t digest, and murder beckons behind the respect that he conceives of as his due." A hybrid of critical essay and memoir, and Rough Notes to Erasure contributes to a growing body of work that wrestles with the tacit and embodied nature of privilege and prejudice, and it contributes not only via argument but also through style. Taking inspiration from feminist/queer poetics and what Fred Moten calls “the black avant-garde,” these rough notes address the remainder that gets lost in explicit argument, which is the flesh. Where privilege roils through history, and empire whets the appetites. But also where the world catches on its own fractalization by thought, feeling, and desire; and language recovers, for a moment or two, the power to entangle us with our mother tongue. 1 04 23 2020 978-1-950192-79-3 978-1-950192-80-9 punctum books Earth, Milky Way https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 10.21983/P3.0287.1.00 https://punctumbooks.com/titles/rough-notes-to-erasure-white-male-privilege-my-senses-and-the-story-i-cannot-tell/ https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0287.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0287.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0287.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0287.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0287.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0287.1.00.pdf 10.20415/rhiz/029.e13 10.2307/431624 10.1080/14680777.2018.1447395 10.1353/elh.2015.0005 10.1215/01903659-27-3-249 10.2307/1354255 10.2307/464726 10.2307/358238 10.1080/00107530.1988.10746234 10.2307/1341787 10.1215/01642472-1597332 10.1080/01436597.2014.946250 10.1215/00382876-6942195 10.1353/scu.2007.0032 10.1353/qui.0.0012 10.1057/fr.1988.42 10.1080/07407700701387317 10.2307/465165 10.1177/0263775816656529 10.1177/0308275x09104084 10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x 10.1353/ncr.2007.0022 10.2307/40145557 10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300307 10.1353/phi.2018.0001 10.1353/ncr.2012.0020 10.1353/ncr.2004.0015