Kermit O
Former teacher turned school abolitionist. Writing a dreampunk novel about kids, trauma, and parallel worlds. Light brown. Unapologetically Black. Punches up.

The Misrepresentation of the Magical Negro

March 7, 2011 • Books, Close Reading, Media Analysis

It is one of the oldest clichés that the “forces of darkness” will set upon that which is good and “light”. In a medium where the heroes are most often white and characters of color – especially black characters – are reduced to plot devices, and in a society where power is designated along lines of “light” and “dark”, the old trope is necessarily racialized…

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