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When The Truth Isn’T Enough: Anti-Racist-White Hero Framework, Tokenism, And Postracism, Sarah Daves
When The Truth Isn’T Enough: Anti-Racist-White Hero Framework, Tokenism, And Postracism, Sarah Daves
Sarah Daves
By applying Kelly Madison’s “anti-racist-white-hero” (ARWH) framework developed in 1999, I seek to discuss how ambiguous, and yet, obvious views of race, racism, and success are threaded throughout my artifact, and so, create a false sense of postracism, which includes a rhetoric of tokenism. In this paper, I take an in-depth look at the trailer for the film Men of Honor in order to expose the “myth of white superiority” (Bineham), and assert that postracism and white heroism are at the crux of media as it applies to the film industry.