Zombies, Migrants, and Queers
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Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture

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eBook - ePub

Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture

About this book

The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal and metaphorical Mexican border on Breaking Bad or coped with a lack of freedom among the marginalized on Orange Is the New Black. Camilla Fojas uses representations of people of color, the incarcerated, and trans/queers--vulnerable populations all--to work through the contradictions created by the economic crisis and its freefalling aftermath. Television, film, advertising, and media coverage of the crisis created a distinct kind of story about capitalism and the violence that supports it. Fojas shows how these pop culture moments reshaped social dynamics and people's economic sensibilities and connects the ways pop culture reflected economic devastation. She also examines how these artifacts illuminated parts of society usually kept off-screen or on the margins even as they defaulted to stories of white protagonists.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction. C.R.E.A.M.: Capitalism Ruins Everything around Me
  7. 1 Border Absurd: The End-Times and the End of the Line
  8. 2 Migrant Domestics and the Fictions of Imperial Capitalism
  9. 3 Zombie Capitalism: Night of the Living Debt
  10. 4 Queer Incarcerations
  11. 5 Sinkholes and Seismic Shifts: Ecological and Other Disasters
  12. 6 Imperial Ruins and Resurgence
  13. Afterword: Racial Capitalism Redux
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index