Reimagining Fan Studies in the Age of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter

We in the United States are living in the midst of two pandemics: Covid-19, which is affecting communities of color at an absurdly disproportionate rate, and a renewed spate of murders of Black people at the hands of police. They reveal the depths of racial inequity and injustice in our country. Thi...

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Main Author: Aya Esther Hayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Organization for Transformative Works 2020-09-01
Series:Transformative Works and Cultures
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Online Access:https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2029/2595
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Summary:We in the United States are living in the midst of two pandemics: Covid-19, which is affecting communities of color at an absurdly disproportionate rate, and a renewed spate of murders of Black people at the hands of police. They reveal the depths of racial inequity and injustice in our country. This is a crisis—a turning point where many of us are wondering what we can do better and how we can be better. For us in fan studies, will we finally face the white supremacy embedded in our discipline and take steps to become an antiracist discipline?
ISSN:1941-2258
1941-2258