Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies?
The relationship is entirely conscripted as service and bound by capitalism and the fantastically presumptive leap is, The money doesn’t matter because I like working for you. And if you’re the racist in the relationship: I can’t be horrible because we’re friends now.
The Morality Wars
Wesley Morris on culture, art, and criticism is essential reading: “Groups who have been previously marginalized can now see that they don’t have to remain marginal. Spending time with work that insults or alienates them has never felt acceptable. Now they can do something about it. They’ve demanded to be taken seriously, and now that they kind of are, they can’t not act…But as urgent as these correctives, cancellations, pre-emptions and proscriptions may be, they do start to take a toll. It can be hard to tell when we’re consuming art and when we’re conducting H.R.”
Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein
New York Times critic-at-large Wesley Morris writes about his ardor for Annabella Sciorra’s art.
Why Pop Culture Just Can’t Deal With Black Male Sexuality
Wesley Morris takes on American culture’s deep, all-abiding fear of the black penis and “America’s dubious assumptions about the sexual prowess of black men.”
Let’s Be Real
Wesley Morris examines the depiction of race and police officers in movies, and juxtaposes it against the shooting in Ferguson.
