1) think about how your knowledge was created
2) consider what stakes there are in portraying certain groups in certain ways
3) don't worry about overthinking it
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Both Annie Palmer and the voodoo master from White Zombie utilized voodoo to tighten their grip on their plantations. I'm not really sure how to describe this other than extremely colonial. #ReadingTweet#ViewingTweet
Created knowledge is an important piece of colonial dynamics. Columbus created the narrative of the cannibal in the minds of europeans, persuading them to see conquest as morally acceptable.
Studying the representations of minoritized people in horror literature and film can provide valuable insights on how they were historically perceived, and how that perception was manipulated against them by their oppressors. #SQSF