![]() The movement also fought for legal recognition and federal protection for Black Americans who often went unrecognized as full citizens. Beginning in the mid-1950s, the Civil Rights Movement sought to end racial segregation and discrimination against Black Americans. Years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Black Americans were (and still are) being treated as less than White Americans and as less than human. for well over a third of the its existence and were repealed only 150 years ago. ![]() Slavery was not seen as inhumane by the majority of White Americans at the time, at least not enough so as to warrant resistance to it, because Blacks were not viewed as human. at the time, reduced Blacks to objects who could be stripped of their human rights and forced into slavery. This, in conjunction with the dominant worldview of the U.S. 1 Until 1868, when it was overwritten by an amendment, it was constitutional law that slaves counted as only three fifths of a free person. census registered almost four million slaves in the U.S. Ultimately, we find that the zombie genre is particularly well-suited as a vehicle for these critical commentaries. This paper will use Critical Discourse Analysis to contextually examine these zombie narratives as a means of exploring their societal critiques. Instances of zombie media such as Get Out, a 2017 film directed by Jordan Peele, World War Z, a 2006 novel written by Max Brooks, Pontypool, a 2008 movie directed by Bruce Mcdonald, and Night of the Living Dead, a movie released in 1968 directed by George Romero, take advantage of certain aspects of the zombie trope to discuss issues of racism, nationalism, and the thoughtless crowd mentality of humans such as ourselves. Survival horror and the zombie genre entertain us, but they can also teach us about contemporary and historical social issues.
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