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Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms

Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms

Wilderson, Frank B.

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ISBN10: 0822347016
ISBN13: 9780822347019
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 19 2010
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Red, White & Black is a provocative critique of socially engaged films and related critical discourse. Offering an unflinching account of race and representation, Frank B. Wilderson III asks whether such films accurately represent the structure of U.S. racial antagonisms. That structure, he argues, is based on three essential subject positions: that of the White (the settler, master, and human), the Red (the savage and half-human), and the Black (the slave and non-human). Wilderson contends that for Blacks, slavery is ontological, an inseparable element of their being. From the beginning of the European slave trade until now, Blacks have had symbolic value as fungible flesh, as the non-human (or anti-human) against which Whites have defined themselves as human. Just as slavery is the existential basis of the Black subject position, genocide is essential to the ontology of the Indian. Both positions are foundational to the existence of (White) humanity.

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