It's Halloween season so let's talk about something spooky, creepy, and disturbing, like how the 1973 horror film The Exorcist perfectly packaged anti-Arab sentiment, Islamophobia, and xenophobia to its audience.
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Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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For one week in 1968, singer and activist Harry Belafonte guest hosted the Tonight Show for Johnny Carson. Belafonte and his guests talked about the Vietnam War, poverty, native rights, race, and interracial relationships, making his one week stint an encapsulating lesson of the turbulent year that was 1968.
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Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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I have a love/hate relationship with Orange is the New Black. While you could argue that the show has a diverse cast of characters bringing representations to media, it's also easy for those characters to also turn into "token" characters, especially when it comes to Sophia Burset.
You can find the full episode script here.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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Although it was only on TV for less than a full season, Firefly has become a cult classic. And while I'll admit that I'm a fan of the show, there's on big problem: although Firefly is inspired by East Asian culture, there aren't any East Asian actors.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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What do you think of when you think of MTV? Reality TV? TRL? Beavis and Butt-head? Because depending on when you started watching MTV you might remember it for what it truly was: a music channel that tried to only play white rock artists.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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Whether you have or haven't seen the 1983 film Scarface, you'll agree it has its place in pop culture. It's referenced in film, TV, and music; you might know lines from the movie ("Say hello to my little friend!"), and may have seen the infamous movie poster on a college dorm wall or two. But let's talk about how the film, which premiered only three years after the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, showed all Cuban political refugees as criminals.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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Let's talk about the two sides of Roseanne: the fictional Roseanne Conner and the real life Roseanne Barr. What do representations of race and gender presentation mean on a show when so closely linked to a woman who sends out racist and transphobic tweets? Can we separate the art from the artist? And should we?
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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Yes, the movie Clueless is problematic, but where to start? From class and race to gender and sexuality, there's something everyone can hate.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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Let's talk about whitewashing, Natives in pop culture, and Iron Eyes Cody.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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For this episode we’re going to talk about Good Times and how it was truly a product of its time. From Black Power to the Moynihan Report, the show was a reaction to images of black life and black representations in the media.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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Want to ruin even more childhood nostalgia? Let's talk about The Jungle Book, colonialism, imperialism, and racism.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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So I might just ruin breakfast for you. Let's talk about the racist history of Aunt Jemima pancakes.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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In today's episode we're going to talk about how the writers of The Little Rascals were influenced by popular media of the time: the Inglewood Raid and lynchings in newspapers, the film The Birth of a Nation, and music produced and sold by the KKK.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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On today's episode, let's talk about -isms, -phobias, and one of your favorite bags of chips.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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For this episode, we’re going to talk about the 1998 film The Siege and how it portrays Arabs and Muslims as terrorists and Islam as a violent religion.
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Let’s talk about Yusuf Hawkins, the black teen Spike Lee dedicated Jungle Fever (1991) to and how his story influenced the movie.
And for this episode there’s a special Spotify playlist on music influenced by and/or about Yusuf Hawkins: spoti.fi/2zZ8u3Y
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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In today's episode we're going to talk about the TV show Highway to Heaven, its 1984 episode titled "Dust Child," and its connection to the Vietnam War and anti-Vietnamese sentiment in the 1980s.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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It's the second Halloween episode! Let's talk about zombies - specifically from the 1932 film White Zombie.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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It's Halloween! And to celebrate there will be two episodes on monsters in pop culture and the -isms and -phobias that they represent. First up: Dracula.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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For this episode, we're going to talk about U.S. foreign policy and how it shaped Hollywood's representation of Latin America in the 1940s, creating films full of racism, whitewashing, exoticism, and sexual objectification.
Art by Jeremy Ferris.
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