https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995 To understand the roles and functions of people of colour in science fiction. We shall we looking at examples such as Star Trek, Dune and Battlestar Galactica. en-us 2019-02-05 15:33:57 UTC 2019-10-31 13:49:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.pics/1/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f47d.png mc19cau https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/403201382 S2E3: Auto Erotic Assimilation. The hive mind Unity has control over a whole population(an entity that thrives on enslavement).She claims that her taking over everyone's mind is best. When the people regain their identities they get into a race war about nipple shape. The whole episode paints things like racism as spawning from irrelevant things. But it never acknowledged  the institutional and systematic xenophobia that create a lot of the issues. It also uses futurology because it tells that audience that racism isn't just a human thing.It paints individuals as stupid, helpless and needed an all powerful being to control them.

]]> 2019-10-28 08:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/403201382 https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/404908271 This clip depicts Star Trek DS9's Captain Benjamin Sisko explaining that he feels uncomfortable with a holographic entertainment setting (A Jazz and Cabaret lounge in Las Vegas 1962, run by "Vic Fontaine"), because the racial strife of the era meant that people of color were never allowed to be customers at a place like the lounge. Kasidy responds by explaining that Vic's program is not designed to contain any of the racial tensions of 1960s United States of America and neither she or Jake have ever felt uncomfortable there. Ben tells her that's the lie… the 1960s were a hard time for people of color (a life, he personally experienced through visions in a previous episode) with the civil rights movement still in the early stages and he doesn't want to pretend that it wasn't. Kasidy defends this and tells Sisko that she believes they can act out how things could, and should, have been, almost in a Utopian-type environment, where one's only limitations are "the ones we impose on ourselves." This has a noticeable effect on the Captain.
 
 Parallels can be
drawn here to how much science-fiction is depicted as "post-racial"
despite the actions behind the scenes and underlying stereotypes of non-white
characters still being depicted on screen. If you watch the clip and mentally
replace their use of "the past" for "the present", and
discussion of "Vics" with "post-racial science fiction",
the parallels are very obvious]]> 2019-10-31 10:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/404908271 ss17rmm https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/404923594 Watto is featured in the films The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. This character has been accused of being offensive because he resembles a 'stereotypical Jew'. He has a large hooked nose, speaks in a gravelly  voice (similar to an Israeli accent), and is portrayed as greedy and covetous.]]> 2019-10-31 11:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/404923594 emmalouise_shaw1 https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/404941675 2019-10-31 12:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/404941675 https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/404990034 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0270467606295971]]> 2019-10-31 13:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/Katucha/week53995/wish/404990034