January 2010
21 posts
December 2009
21 posts
“I draw a radical distinction between the symbolic and the substantial. As a...”
– Cornel West (via langer) (via unburyingthelead) (via fuckyeahtheorists)
"When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like...
wordsandsteel:
If we think of Avatar and its ilk as white fantasies about race, what kinds of patterns do we see emerging in these fantasies?
In both Avatar and District 9, humans are the cause of alien oppression and distress. Then, a white man who was one of the oppressors switches sides at the last minute, assimilating into the alien culture and becoming its savior. This is also the basic...
