PHOTO:
Riccardo Gazzaniga
ARTICLE:
The White Man In That Photo
By Gianni Mura
www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-white-man-in-that-photo
In 1968 Peter Norman, an Australian arrived in the 200 meters finals after having ran an amazing 20.22 in the semi finals.
Only the two Americans, Tommie “The Jet” Smith and John Carlos had done better: 20.14 and 20.12, respectively.
“When forced into a binary, you always choose wrong.”
“What mobilizations can race make possible? In this sense, what race does or can do is lead away from hermeneutic, interpretive criticism to critical practices of mobilization, from a humanism to a nonhumanism that is not inherently racist.”