Lisa Weckerle
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Scapegoating and Language
Great post! I especially appreciate your focus on how the way indigenous people are portrayed in historical films/tv can rewrite who are the oppressors (the switch the show enacts from Canadian to American) and who are the oppressed (the easy relationship ... -
Masculinity in Godless
What a great post! I just watched all of Godless, so thank you for inspiring me to do that. Your questions about how masculinity is (de)constructed in Godless and other Western narratives is intriguing. On the one hand, Roy Goode's domesticity (his p ... -
Legalization New
Thanks for your comments, Sasha. You make an excellent point about the similarity between present day shifts in marijuana's association with race and Walt's colonization of the drug world. It also seems to me that the legalization of marijuana a ... -
Colonization and Otherness
Thank you for your comments and questions. In response to your question about Manifest Destiny, the wilderness was often conceived of either completely blank and ripe for development or filled with savages and in need of cleansing. Both of these are of co ... -
Neoliberalism and Narrative
Thank you for your comments! Your idea to separate the movement of whiteness and the narrative colonization of Western is very useful. You make a very good point about the whiteness of the meth business in the last season of the show. White characters Mik ...