Citation

Rowe AC. Hypatia 2007; 22(2): 122-142.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Indiana University Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb00985.x

PMID

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Abstract

Carrillo Rowe provides an analysis of Monster's Ball as a cultural narrative of white masculinity's redemption from the atrocities of racism through an interracial love story that erases white masculinity's national history and implication in a racist past while it displaces the black female body from that history and identification with the struggle for reparation. The nexus of sex, race, and desire is used to produce a new whiteness consistent with the emerging national multicultural logics of color blindness by undermining the narrative, memory, identity, and racing of bodies grounding the logic of reparation.