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Postracial Fantasies and Zombies: On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World Volume 5

Postracial Fantasies and Zombies: On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World Volume 5

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Series: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0520403789
ISBN13: 9780520403789
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This book understands the postracial as a genre--like the zombie apocalypse--that signals a disturbance in society that is felt as terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces blackened biothreat bodies, rituals of securitization, and fantasies of the reclamation of white masculine sovereignty. Eric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, preparing the scientific and philosophical ground for interpreting zombie lore. The book treats the Greater Caribbean as a transformative space in which an antiblack infrastructure arose and interrogates the US's militarized domination of Haiti that was the context in which the zombie emerged. Watts traces variations of the form and function of the zombie to contemplate how it matters to our contemporary struggles with racism and pandemic policies.

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