Deployments of Multiracial Masculinity and Anti-Black Violence: The Racial Framings of Barack Obama, George Zimmerman, and Daunte Wright

In this article, I examine how political and media discourses of multiraciality are deployed to justify guilt innocence. trace the deployment determine who is deserving life or death in coverage, rhetoric, court records during Obama’s presidency, George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal, 2021 killing Daunte Wright. weaponization multiracial identities as tools white supremacy anti-Blackness. Through such weaponization, construction man an index racial progress post-racism evident Barack Obama era enabled violence miscarriages justice killings Trayvon Martin consider transnational U.S. narratives multiraciality, joined with anti-Blackness supremacy, acquittal Zimmerman. Furthermore, womanhood fears Black masculinity facilitated sympathy garnered towards Kim Potter. considering Wright, paper shows malleability valuable only when utilized for preserving hierarchies.