https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri en-us 2023-02-01 18:07:54 UTC 2026-02-13 12:26:47 UTC hello@padlet.com ragsdalemb07 https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465019993 The history comes from Di Placcido's article as a response to George Romero's death.]]> 2023-02-01 18:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465019993 ragsdalemb07 https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465030921 Di Placido writes, "The Haitian zombie reflects an obvious fear; to be enslaved...forced to do their bidding. Given that [many] Haitians are the descendants of...slaves [from Africa,] it’s unsurprising that this was the monster that arose from their collective subconscious." ]]> 2023-02-01 18:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465030921 ragsdalemb07 https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465035987 While the Haitian Revolution is one of the only successful slave result in Colonial America, it did not happen overnight. The Spanish, French, and British empires benefited and profited off the labor of people who were enslaved. ]]> 2023-02-01 18:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465035987 ragsdalemb07 https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465042343 Early versions of the zombie do not reflect the ones we are used to seeing in shows like The Walking Dead. As Di Placido notes, zombies were created by a sorcerer: "The Haitian zombie isn’t necessarily a corpse; some legends are more “rational” than others, and state that zombies are actually victims of magic potions that induce them into a coma-like state. The Bakor merely wakes them up and drugs them into an obedient stupor." ]]> 2023-02-01 18:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465042343 ragsdalemb07 https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465054355 Haitian zombies are a metaphor for the human cost of slavery. Slavers robbed people of autonomy, agency, and tried to break their spirit. The term being "zombified" takes on new meaning when we consider the reality of formerly enslaved groups of people. Moreover, what's truly horrific is that Bela Lugosi, the man responsible for portraying Dracula as a handsome debonair count in Hollywood, also portrayed the "Murder" Legendre, a white Haitian voodoo master who commands a crew of zombies in the first film to feature them on screen, White Zombie (1932). This film shows the metaphor of the early zombies in Haiti. ]]> 2023-02-01 18:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465054355 ragsdalemb07 https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465285867 Di Placido moves from discussing George Romero's death to Haitian zombies and then to the flesh eating zombies we're familiar with. In Romero's second zombie film, Dawn of the Dead, zombies are a metaphor for consumerism and consumer culture set inside a mall. Di Placido writes, "The herds of brainless dead have no individual desires, other than unquenchable hunger; they will consume the world until there is nothing left to eat. The shopping mall, temple of capitalism, served as both a fortress and a prison." Undoubtedly influenced by Romero, Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies also takes up the idea that zombies connote consumerism, blindly shuffling through shopping malls and airports looking for their next meal. The difference? They are teenagers. ]]> 2023-02-01 22:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465285867 ragsdalemb07 https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465287995 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uRf1CDtxi5sskDrgfWPV2-SujA4dCDf_755uI7MJ9EY/edit#slide=id.p]]> 2023-02-01 22:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ragsdalemb07/3pihmlcw9pmltcri/wish/2465287995