In a recent Texas Tech University podcast, Bryan K. Hotchkins, a professor of educational psychology, discussed how the movie 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' is 'anti-black' and projects 'expectations of whiteness.'
'His budding love interest, Gwen, is a blond-haired, blue-eyed white girl,' the professor noted.
On the most recent episode of Texas Tech University’s (TTU) “Humanities Now” podcast, Bryan K. Hotchkins, a professor of educational psychology at TTU, discussed how the movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is “anti-black” and projects “expectations of whiteness.”
The 2018 film features Miles Morales voicing the title role. Morales, who is African American and Puerto Rican, is the first Black person to depict the comic book superhero, Vulture reported around the film's release.
“This particular iteration of the Spider-Man movie, the ethnic version, is complete with suspense, action, and anti-black sentiment — which speaks to my being completely unsurprised at it being so notorious,” Hotchkins said.
The episode, titled “A Conversation with Dr. Bryan K. Hotchkins: ‘My Black is Exhausted,’” was released by TTU’s Humanities Center, which previously announced its "Anti-Racism!" theme for the 2021-2022 podcast episodes.
“When there’s finally a Spider-Man who is Black and Latinx, he is relegated to sharing a responsibility and the glory of protecting his city — while in every other Spider-Verse, there is a single super Spider-Hero,” Hotchkins stated.
He also found Morales’ interracial relationship to be problematic.
“His budding love interest, Gwen, is a blond-haired, blue-eyed white girl,” the professor noted. “As it pertains to the presence of a young black woman, there is not a single character who...
“When there’s finally a Spider-Man who is Black and Latinx, he is relegated to sharing a responsibility and the glory of protecting his city — while in every other Spider-Verse, there is a single super Spider-Hero,” Hotchkins stated.
He also found Morales’ interracial relationship to be problematic.
“His budding love interest, Gwen, is a blond-haired, blue-eyed white girl,” the professor noted. “As it pertains to the presence of a young black woman, there is not a single character who...
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The "Education" department, including "Educational Psychology" at all universities are farces and should be shut down.
ReplyDeleteOMFG is that all you people are capable of?
ReplyDeleteEverything distills down to white and black for these people.
I don't know anyone, even admitted bigots, that are as prejudicial and immediately biased against anything and everything.
Its a fucking cartoon character man, it does not spell the death of modern society! Hyper reactive liberal social justice warriors on the other hand, do actually appear pretty close to totally fucking up this planet, however.
Time to go broke, now, Marvel.
ReplyDeleteNow if Spidey had been a white boy porking a black female, then what kind of Marxist nonsense would they spout?
ReplyDeleteWhat does the Prof feel about Obama's Dad and Mom? Just asking if He feels that going out of "race" is an issue that affected Obama.
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