Sean Parson

Part 3: The Legacy of Slavery and the horror of White Supremacy

Thursday, February 15th: The Horror of Slavery

Film:• The Girl With All the Gifts (2017)

Reading: Frank B. Wilderson III, “Blacks and the Master/Slave Relationship” from Afro-Pessimisman Introduction

Week 6:

Tuesday, February 20th:

Reading: Annalee Newitz, Pretend We are Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture, Ch. 3“The Undead: A Haunted Whiteness”

Thursday, February 22nd:

Film: Excerpts from Birth of a Nation (1915); Birth of a Nation (2016)

Reading: Nikhil Singh, “The Whiteness of Police” from American Quarterly Vol. 4 (2014)

Week 7:

Tuesday, February 27th: Race and Social Death

Reading: “Get the Fuck Outta Here: A Dialogue on Jordon Peele’s GET OUT” found at https://medium.com/@SonofBaldwin/get-the-fuck-outta-here-a-dialogue-on-jordan-peelesget-out-831fef18b2b3

Dianca London “’Get Out’ and The Revolutionary Act of Subverting the white Gaze” found at https://theestablishment.co/get-out-and-the-revolutionary-act-of-subverting-the-whitegaze-c769cb620496

Thursday:

Film: Get Out

Readings: Preston Mitchum, “Get Out Provides that ‘nice racism’ and White Liberalism are Never to be Trusted” found at https://www.theroot.com/get-out-proves-that-nice-racism-and-whiteliberalism-1792955235

Aisha Harris, “The Most Terrifying Villain in Get Out is white Womanhood” found athttp://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/07/how_get_out_positions_white_womanhood_as_the_most_horrifying_villain_of.html

Ms. Willis “The Most Overlooked & Underrated Characters in ‘Get Out’ are Black Women”found at https://movietime.guru/black-women-in-get-out-d87e0aa9d7c7

Kinitra Brooks, “What Becky Gotta Do to get Murked? White Womanhood in Jordan Peele’s Get Out” Found at http://verysmartbrothas.com/what-becky-gotta-do-to-get-murkedwhite-womanhood-in-jordan-peeles-get-out

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