![]() ![]() This is the American dream in its rawest, most honest form, and We Cast a Shadow bathes in that ugly truth, exposing who is hurt and preyed upon when whiteness is the default. By conjuring a society in which whiteness is literally attainable, the book turns it from an unachievable ideal into a graspable luxury-a commodity. But We Cast a Shadow takes the metaphor further than these previous works. To see a body designed by racism is to witness racism’s inherent disfigurement, its necessary warping of real people into unreal forms. From the body swapping in Get Out, to the body modifications in Jess Row’s novel Your Face in Mine, to the garish Teddy Perkins and Benny Hope in Atlanta, to the horsemen in Sorry to Bother You, metamorphosis is suited to examining racism’s destructive twists and turns because it reifies monstrous ideas as monstrous people. Transformative procedures and racism have been a common pairing in recent films, TV series, and novels precisely because of their terrible yet also fun-house quality. ![]()
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