full individual is raceless, unraced -- whiteness is not a race, it is beyond race, it is fiull individuality, while those who are raced is made abject. In masscult from this liberalism arose the desire/envy for/of race on the part of the
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unraced superior selffashioning Individuals, and many stories of an Individual recuperating what belongs to race (authenticity, culture) by becoming the king-leader-savior of a raced tribe. This can even be a population within whiteness,
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in highly liberal multiculti form, as we find in Local Hero, an odd example, but typically the story is powerfully racist / white supremacist in its formulations while seeming to articulating a critique of white supremacy.
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To be white in liberalism is to be mobile, to be human imperial capital: to have no home but the right to hang your hat anywhere; to have no culture but able to shop and acquire in the global gallery of cultural products, to be self defining as opposed to
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rigidly determined others who bear a raced essence (Said explains all this in Orientalism), but at the same time to be white in liberalism is to lay claim to everything as property, as if one were (implicitly) the rightful heir to all human product. In
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Nazism and classic fascism, the superior population takes is place as a race with all the qualities of a race at the top of the racial pyramid (or even not alone at the top, for none of this ever makes any sense, it's opportunistic); comix have
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always been profoundly fascist in this sense, though they can be superficially very productive of liberal tropes and narratemes. Other genres of cinema are better suited to liberal individualism. Fascist culture is now dominant in masscult.
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A classic liberal blockbuster formula of high American imperial liberalism is the white saviour who "goes native": by taking over a raced population he is enriched by that of which he as the Imperial Liberal Individual is deprived:community & culture per se.
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These films all seem to critique race as they re-inscribe it (in that posty language sorry) by the contrast of the way the white saviour acquires and owns his adopted (bought) culture and the way the Raced Others are owned by it. This is visible
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everywhere in American culture in the way the appropriated blackness of white people contrasts to the assigned blackness of black people (or nonblack people being assigned blackness as crime, e.g. Slobodan Milosevic)
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