Possible South: Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality Brasell R. Bruce
Possible South: Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality Brasell R. Bruce Using cultural theory, author R. After considering the emergence of the region's biraciality through a…
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Possible South: Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality Brasell R. Bruce
Using cultural theory, author R. 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. 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.
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. First, the framework assumes racial purity, and, second, it assumes that two races exist. Then he examines cultural miscegenation through