Vids about race
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This is a query I've been thinking about posting for a while. It relates both to a vid playlist I've been thinking about doing for WisCon and to an academic article I have in the works.
Can you tell me about vids that directly address race, in any way? The ones I usually think about are all quite old - which may be because there was a particular period, around RaceFail09, when people were especially vidding about race (this is something I want to explore in the article) - but also I have not been as present in vidding fandom in the last couple of years (damn full time employment) to see what is being done.
Here are the vids that I think of first when I think about vidders addressing race (NOT an exhaustive list in any way; I haven't even sat down and gone through my hard drive on this, so these are just the vids that I've rewatched a million times and that have shaped my thinking about how vidding as a form tends to approach questions of race and racism):
Origin Stories
How Much is That Geisha in the Window?
Secret Asian Man
"White" and Nerdy
56 Chambers (Enter the Wu-Tang)
Shake It Out
I'm interested in vids that do things with race that are more difficult to parse or don't work out, as well (I recall a vid to Eminem called White America that caused a lot of controversy a few years ago).
In other vid related news, I am going to Vividcon this year! I have an idea for a premiere that would be amazing, but it's very labor-intensive and the chances of my finding the time to make it are approximately 0.0001%, alas.
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This is a query I've been thinking about posting for a while. It relates both to a vid playlist I've been thinking about doing for WisCon and to an academic article I have in the works.
Can you tell me about vids that directly address race, in any way? The ones I usually think about are all quite old - which may be because there was a particular period, around RaceFail09, when people were especially vidding about race (this is something I want to explore in the article) - but also I have not been as present in vidding fandom in the last couple of years (damn full time employment) to see what is being done.
Here are the vids that I think of first when I think about vidders addressing race (NOT an exhaustive list in any way; I haven't even sat down and gone through my hard drive on this, so these are just the vids that I've rewatched a million times and that have shaped my thinking about how vidding as a form tends to approach questions of race and racism):
Origin Stories
How Much is That Geisha in the Window?
Secret Asian Man
"White" and Nerdy
56 Chambers (Enter the Wu-Tang)
Shake It Out
I'm interested in vids that do things with race that are more difficult to parse or don't work out, as well (I recall a vid to Eminem called White America that caused a lot of controversy a few years ago).
In other vid related news, I am going to Vividcon this year! I have an idea for a premiere that would be amazing, but it's very labor-intensive and the chances of my finding the time to make it are approximately 0.0001%, alas.
Posted at Dreamwidth.
comments.