Journal article
Racing the Matrix: Variations on White Supremacy in Responses to the Film Trilogy
Cultural studies, critical methodologies, Vol.6(3), pp.354-369
08/2006
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/108914
Abstract
This article analyzes racialized readings of The Matrixtrilogy. Examining popular, academic, and vernacular sources, in print and online, it probes how commentators talk about race in the films and in turn how they use the films to talk about the racial politics of everyday life. It identifies two major interpretations: multiculturalist and White nationalist. It argues that despite obvious differences, together, these renderings of the trilogy must be understood as efforts to reconfigure racialized discourse in the wake of the civil rights movement, reworking white supremacy as they speak to, through, and against naturalized notions of difference at the start of the 21st century.
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- Title
- Racing the Matrix: Variations on White Supremacy in Responses to the Film Trilogy
- Creators
- C. Richard King - Washington State University, PullmanDavid J Leonard - Washington State University, Pullman
- Publication Details
- Cultural studies, critical methodologies, Vol.6(3), pp.354-369
- Academic Unit
- Languages, Cultures, and Race, School of
- Publisher
- Sage Publications; Thousand Oaks, CA
- Identifiers
- 99900547161301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article