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The Possible South - Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality (Hardcover)
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The Possible South - Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality (Hardcover)
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Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues
surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as
biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films,
including such works as Tell about the South, bro*ken/ground, and
Family Name. After considering the emergence of the region's
biraciality through a consideration of the concepts of racial
citizenry and racial performativity, Brasell examines two problems
associated with this framework. First, the framework assumes racial
purity, and, second, it assumes that two races exist. In other
words, biraciality enacts two denials, first, the existence of
miscegenation in the region and, second, the existence of other
races and ethnicities. Brasell considers bodily miscegenation,
discussing the racial closet and the southeastern expatriate road
film. Then he examines cultural miscegenation through the lens of
racial poaching and 1970s southeastern documentaries that use
redemptive ethnography. In the subsequent chapters, using specific
documentary films, he considers the racial in-betweenness of
Spanish-speaking ethnicities (Mosquitoes and High Water, Living in
America, Nuestra Communidad), probes issues related to the process
of racial negotiation experienced by Asian Americans as they seek a
racial position beyond the black and white binary (Mississippi
Triangle), and engages the problem of racial legitimacy confronted
by federally non-recognized Native groups as they attempt the same
feat (Real Indian).
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