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Lovecraft Country: Racism is the Real Horror

Pop DNA
Pop DNA
Episode • Oct 8, 2022 • 41m

TW this week for discussions of racism and racialized trauma

Lovecraft Country sets out to give us a transformed or reclaimed vision of the horrors invented by the racist author H. P. Lovecraft, centering the very people that Lovecraft himself would have marginalized. How successful is the series at achieving this goal? 

We explore different perspectives on how horror as a genre has been used to comment on societal issues like class, economics, and especially race, and how Lovecraft Country and other works of Black horror fit into this discussion.

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