Title: Red, white & black
Subtitle: cinema and the structure of U.S. antagonisms
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Indians in motion pictures, African Americans in motion pictures, Minorities in motion pictures, Race in motion pictures, History, Motion pictures, united states, Motion pictures--history, Motion pictures--united states--history, Pn1995.9.m56 w55 2010, 791.43/6529
Places: United States