Postracial fantasies, blackness, and zombies

• Published in: Communication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 317 - 333
• Main Author: King Watts, Eric
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.10.2017
• Subjects: biopolitics; blackness; Postracial fantasies; racism; zombie apocalypse

The essay mainly performs a structural and formal analysis of the logics and affective economies of postracial fantasies so as to eventually offer the Zombie trope as a mode of analysis figuring alternative ways of thinking race relations. The essay contends that the Zombie, when articulated with di...