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Feeling in the Dark: Empathy, Whiteness, and Miscege-nation in Monster's Ball

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Aimee Carrillo Rowe
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Abstract

Carrillo Rowe provides an analysis of Monster's Ball as a cultural narrative of white masculinity's redemption from the atrocities of racism through an interracial love story that erases white masculinity's national history and implication in a racist past while it displaces the black female body from that history and identification with the struggle for reparation. The nexus of sex, race, and desire is used to produce a new whiteness consistent with the emerging national multicultural logics of color blindness by undermining the narrative, memory, identity, and racing of bodies grounding the logic of reparation.

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Miscegenation and Purity
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Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 2: Special Issue: The Reproduction of Whiteness: Race and the Regulation of the Gendered Body , Spring 2007 , pp. 122 - 142
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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