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Calling Up Understanding Resistance Expanded Representation in Cultural Productions - Calling Up Justice!

Calling Up Understanding Resistance Expanded Representation in Cultural Productions

JUL 10, 2019 5:09 PM

This video reflects on the dynamics of performance happening around the expanded representation of casting an African-american actress in the title role of the cultural production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. We discuss the dynamic of fighting to maintain white domination in fictive spaces and what this tells us about maintenance of white domination in the real world.

Further Reading

Context for inciting incident: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/09/ariel-little-mermaid-halle-bailey-disney-backlash/

We’ve done this before: https://www.in-mind.org/blog/post/the-force-is-too-strong-with-this-one-sexism-star-wars-and-female-heroes

Disney and American Culture: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-disney-came-define-what-constitutes-american-experience-180961632/

Chloe and Halle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPwuduhx0vw

On US Concentration Camps: https://www.gq.com/story/george-takei-american-concentration-camps

What to do about concentration camps? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/27/what-should-we-do-about-concentration-camps-trumps-america

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