Postracial Fantasies and Zombies: On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

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Eric King Watts

Postracial Fantasies and Zombies

On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World

Eric King Watts

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English

University of California Press
06 August 2024

Philosophy; Social discrimination; Ethnic studies; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Environmentalist thought & ideology

Series: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture

This book understands the postracial as a genre—like the zombie apocalypse—that signals a disturbance in society that is felt as terrifying and exciting. The postracial is repetitive and reproduces blackened biothreat bodies, rituals of securitization, and fantasies of the reclamation of white masculine sovereignty. Eric King Watts examines key moments when Blackness became an object of knowledge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, preparing the ""scientific"" and philosophical ground for interpreting zombie lore. The book treats the ""Greater Caribbean"" as a transformative space in which an antiblack infrastructure arose and interrogates the US's militarized domination of Haiti that was the context in which the zombie emerged. Watts traces variations of the form and function of the zombie to contemplate how it matters to our contemporary struggles with racism and pandemic policies.

By: Eric King Watts
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 5
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520403772
ISBN 10: 0520403770
Series: Environmental Communication, Power, and Culture
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 06 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 “Name Something You Know about Zombies” 2 Haiti’s Postcolonial “Shadows”: The Magic Island and White Zombie 3 “It Was an Accident. The Whole Movie Was an Accident”: The Perverse Postracial in Night of the Living Dead 4 “Zombies Are Real” Conclusion: Blackened Death and Zombie Relations Notes Bibliography Index

Eric King Watts is Associate Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University and has published widely on racism and Blackness, including his previous book, Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement.