On a more serious note
Jul. 19th, 2006 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseNo time currently to add my thoughts to the discussion, but to start the thinking process, here's a collection of links.
I tried to add a second post to Nalo's blog pointing out my guilty not-so-secret, which all two of you who read me know -- that while I observed the racist elements in the Cannibal sequence in Pirates, and wish that scene would roll over and die, I also like the rest of the movie, voodoo woman and all. But it acted weird on posting and hasn't shown up.
But I wonder if being able to like something with such elements, that isn't made in a time when that was part of the context, makes me less than I should be.
Anyway, the harvest of links:
How to shut down discussion of racism.
About Pirates of the Caribbean in particular.
Casting in Hollywood and TV, part one.
Casting in Hollywood and TV, part two.
Othering is a Luxury
But of course I'm not colorblind. I can't pretend to be. I don't wish to be.
I tried to add a second post to Nalo's blog pointing out my guilty not-so-secret, which all two of you who read me know -- that while I observed the racist elements in the Cannibal sequence in Pirates, and wish that scene would roll over and die, I also like the rest of the movie, voodoo woman and all. But it acted weird on posting and hasn't shown up.
But I wonder if being able to like something with such elements, that isn't made in a time when that was part of the context, makes me less than I should be.
Anyway, the harvest of links:
How to shut down discussion of racism.
About Pirates of the Caribbean in particular.
Casting in Hollywood and TV, part one.
Casting in Hollywood and TV, part two.
Othering is a Luxury
But of course I'm not colorblind. I can't pretend to be. I don't wish to be.
