"No, You Did Not Do Me a Favor" The Whiteness Games of Merit

This affective/sensorial performance, woven through with interlocking poetic and narrative expressions, voices the visceral wounds of racism that form the infrastructures of communication studies It grapples with the merit games that make up White hegemony, seeking to render visible the mediocrity and intellectual emptiness of these games. Aesthetic expression is sometimes the only vehicle available to process trauma that is written into the everyday rituals of a discipline, making visible and simultaneously dismantling the irrationality of Whiteness peddled as reason.