Race, Philosophy, and Film

Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo is Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, USA. Dan Flory is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University, USA.

Introduction: Philosophical Approaches to Race in Film Dan Flory and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo Epistemology 1. Imaginative Resistance and the White Gaze in Machete and The Help Dan Flory 2. Born into Bondage: Teaching The Matrix and Unlearning the Racial Organization of Knowledge Michael Eng 3. What's So Bad About Blackface? Christy Mag Uidhir Aesthetics 4. So Now You’re Swedish American?’: Jewish-American Women, Philosophies of Beauty in Requiem for a Dream Renée R. Curry and William Brigham 5.Cruising Through Race Monique Roelofs Moral Philosophy 6. True Blood and Race: From Progress to Complacency to Paganism, to Humanity Naomi Zack 7. Avatar: Racism and Prejudice on Pandora Michael P. Levine and Damian Cox 8. "Now, Imagine She's White": The Gift of the Black Gaze and the Re-Inscription of Whiteness as Normative in A Time to Kill George Yancy Social and Political Philosophy 9. Race As/And (Ex)change: Trading Places and the Rise of Neo-Liberalism Charles W. Mills 10. Hardly Black and White: Racial and Sexual Stereotypes in Manderlay and Black Snake Moan Mélanie Walton 11. Elisions of Race and Stories of Progress: Planet 51 and The Princess and the Frog Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo Technology and the (Lived) Body 12.Vampires, Technology, and Racism: The Vampiric Image in Twilight and Let Me In Brian H. Onishi 13. Desperate Black Female: Sex and Race in Monster’s Ball Lucy Bolton