Sasha Crawford-Holland

University of Southern California

spcrawfo@usc.edu

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Encoding Race in Westworld

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Sasha Crawford-Holland University of Southern California

April 30, 2018
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Encoding Race in Westworld race New Visions of the Old West digital technology Curator's Note From its genocidal belief in manifest destiny to its melancholic preservation of a conservative social order, the Western has historically been a white supr ...

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Re: Encoding Race in Westworld

Nuance

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Sasha Crawford-Holland University of Southern California

Friday, May 4, 2018 — 6:30 pm
Thanks for your comment! I completely agree that this totalizing binary loses important nuances about power. Your point about how this 'racial' hierarchy is deployed to quell class anxieties is really compelling- it'll be interesting to see ...
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Re: AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier

Legalization

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Sasha Crawford-Holland University of Southern California

Friday, May 4, 2018 — 6:51 pm
Interesting post! It strikes me that your reading of white colonial expansion in Breaking Bad resonates profoundly with current shifts surrounding marijuana legalization. In the past, this industry's criminalization provided a legal basis for disprop ...