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In the peak tourism seasons locals in Jackson know not to go anywhere near the town square, where elk-antler archways become choked with visitors who slash the air with selfie sticks. For $6 a head, they ride around the four-block downtown, enjoying Old West architectural flairs like wooden sidewalks and knotty pine exteriors that make the town seem a lived-in theme park of a benevolent past. A drive to the grocery store, which might take six minutes in the off-seasons, can take half an hour with tourist traffic during winter (ski season) or summer (national park season).
In the winter, many Jackson residents wake up before the sun rises and stand outside in single-digit or negative temperatures to catch a ride up the ski mountain on the first tram of the day, because once the visitors finish their eggs Benedicts and lash on their rented plastic boots, the wait can be hours long. Typical tourist-town dynamics are strong here: locals resent visitors for crowding the sl
I began to write this essay in January 2020, what feels like years ago. The issues I wanted to raise are no longer even partly hidden. The effects of racism on the body, especially the black body, are in plain sight.
Most of these problems have been there for centuries, but are now called pandemics. Pandemics of murder, of disease and of social inequality. In the face of new waves of deaths, including those that precipitated the Black Lives Matter movement, the world is reawakening to the power of racism to kill people.
The Effects of Race Project at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study started in 2013. The goal of a team of academics was to better understand the “everydayness of race” and how race-thinking created durable and seemingly inescapable racialised realities in South Africa, the US and elsewhere.