Modern Family: Circuits of Transmission between Arabs and Blacks.

AFRICAN American sailors; RACE relations in the United States; HOLLAND, Sharon; EROTIC Life of Racism, The (Book); RACIAL identity of white people; CULTURAL production; CITIZENSHIP; PERSONAL beauty

The article presents the author's insights on the emergence of the trend involving the Black/white binary in the discussion of race relations in the U.S. Topics discussed include the note of author Sharon Holland in her book "The Erotic Life of Racism," the utilization of whiteness as a standard for the identification of cultural production, beauty, and citizenship, and the limited place of Black studies in the academic enterprise.