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Suppressing Black Power through Black Panther's neocolonial allegory
Review of Communication Pub Date : 2020-07-02 , DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2020.1778071
Jordan L. Johnson 1 , Kristen Hoerl 1
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ABSTRACT This essay argues that the superhero movie Black Panther (2018) operates allegorically as a neocolonial text. The central conflict between T’Challa/Black Panther and his nemesis Killmonger maps onto debates and mediated discourses about Black Power ideologies that proliferated during the mid- to late 20th century. The film resolves this conflict through the involvement of a white Central Intelligence Agency agent, paralleling the agency's long history of interventions in the Global South. Ultimately, Black Panther portrays openness to the United States as the best solution to global inequalities caused by colonialism and its attendant racism in the United States. By containing Black political agency within arenas that sustain global inequality, this movie illustrates how inclusion portrayals of Blackness may function as a project of neocolonialism that ultimately maintains whiteness without centralizing white bodies.

中文翻译:

通过黑豹的新殖民寓言抑制黑力量

摘要本文认为,超级英雄电影《黑豹》(Black Panther,2018)寓言地作为新殖民文本而运作。T'Challa / Black Panther与他的复仇者Killmonger之间的中心冲突,勾勒出关于20世纪中叶至后期激增的Black Power意识形态的辩论和调解性话语。电影通过中央情报局的一位白人特工的介入解决了这一冲突,与此同时,该机构在全球南方进行干预的历史也很悠久。最终,黑豹将对美国的开放描绘为解决殖民主义及其伴随的种族主义在美国造成的全球不平等的最佳解决方案。通过将黑人政治机构纳入维持全球不平等的舞台,
更新日期:2020-07-02
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