S E1280: In Class with Carr, Ep. 280: “There Ain’t No Such Thing as Superman!”
This Is Karen Hunter
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
The Cultural Meaning Making trope of Superman, especially as a trope used in US white nationalism, serves as a point of entry to consider power, collective identity and belief in the US Social Structure. In a moment in US and global history especially fraught with mass and social media manipulation, how can we leverage the momentum of memory to empower alternative visions of self-determination?
Critical white nationalist reaction to the latest “Superman” movie reminds us of the US’s persistent need for savior figures, often racialized to uphold white nationalist ideologies.
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