Timothy Beckman on Timothy Wise's The Myth of White Supremacy as socio-cultural echopraxia

Preface/ Links

Here is a 9 minute link from Timothy Wise's The Myth of White Supremacy (Note: taken from  an hour long lecture also available on the second link down):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Xe1kX7Wsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AMY2Bvxuxc

Also, I found a video with both Tim Wise and Angela Davis discussing 21st century institutions like the military and prison industrial complexes respectively and how these inextricably relate to and reify how we ask questions with respect to the Anthropocene, ecological damage and human "thingification"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPClML6Qc0

Critical Questions and Discussion

           The term echopraxia (also known as echokinesis) is "the involuntary repetition or imitation of another person's actions." Often discussed in relation to what are sometimes referred to as culturally bound syndromes, this state or action silhouettes the psychological praxis (process) by which a theory, lesson or skill is enacted, embodied or realized and reified. UC Berkeley alumna Barbara Christian, professor of African American studies, revealingly provides indicting commentary in Ethnic Notions, begging questions regarding the psychological residuals of slavery and segregation in the media and their parallels in the mind. Her poignant claim that "one of the best ways to of maintaining a system of oppression is with psychological control" parallels Tim Wise's pursuit in explaining the unexplainable tracing of what these images, ideologies and cultural infrastructures "reveal about our hopes, fears, fantasies" as symptomatic of exchange values between social totalities. 

         Below I traced a general outline of some key terms from Tim Wise's lecture that further frame the psychological presuppositions that to a certain extent foment the praxis for how we answer questions regarding who or what counts as economic necessity or political undesirability. In summation, I am interested in further researching the unconscious associations and "echopractic" convulsions that characterize who gets what in the inherently social landscape of exclusivist praxaeology (Physiology, hygiene, medicine, psychology, animal history, human history, political economy, morality, etc. )

Breakdown of key concepts in sequence for the Tim Wise video

1 minute, 33 seconds: "Economic stability, economic justice"

2 minutes, 33 seconds: "50 acres of land" ; "cut you in on this deal, enter into contracts testify in courts" for whom? Previously pennyless, landless white peasant laborers

2 minutes, 43 seconds: "slave patrol" ; "a little taste of power"

3 minutes, 53 seconds: "How do you get poor people who don't even own the shirt on their back, let alone slaves, to go fight to keep your slaves for you?"

4 minutes 25 seconds: "slavery actually undermined the wages and the wage base or economic floor of the typical white working class, low-income person"

4 minutes 35 seconds: "But they were told 'if these people were free they're going to take your job. No fool, they got your job... At some level, working class white people being harmed by white privilege... In absolute terms being economically subordinated by the very thing that gave them a sense of superiority. 

5 minutes:  Capital, goods and human capital across the U.S/ Mexico border

6 minutes: Post-Hurricane Katrina apart-hood

7 minutes: David Duke.           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke        In this day & age?

8 minutes, 15 seconds: "to pass an ordinance saying that you couldn't rent property in St. Bernard Parish to anyone who wasn't a blood relative"

9 minutes, 5 seconds: "the lure of whiteness has tricked these have nothing in their bank account into believing that they've got more in common with the rich white folks on St. Charles Avenue that didn't lose anything in that flooding than with the black working class folks who live about 500 yards away"