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post-colonial studies

Abu-Remaileh, Razan. "Vampires, Race and Citizenship in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Ignite: Undergraduate Journal of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, vol. 5, no.1 , 2013, pp. 6-12. Available online.

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Alessio, Dominic. "'Things are Different Now?': A Postcolonial Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The European Legacy, vol. 6, no. 6, 2001, pp. 731-40.

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Beaudoin, Julianna. "Exploring the Contemporary Relevance of 'Gypsy' Stereotypes in the Buffyverse." The Journal of Popular Culture, vol.48, no. 2, April 2015, pp. 313-327. 

 

Casta, Isabelle-Rachel. and Daniel Williford. "Anti-Imperialism in the Buffyverse: Challenging the Mythos of Bush as Vampire Slayer." Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Intervention, vol. 3, no. 2, 2004.

 

Edwards, Lynne Y. "'The black chick always gets it first': Black Slayers in Sunnydale." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays, edited by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III, McFarland, 2017, pp. 37-50.

 

Fuchs, Cynthia. "'Did Anyone Ever Explain to you What "Secret Identity" Means?': Race and Displacement in Buffy and Dark Angel." Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, edited by Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Durham, 2007, pp. 96-115. Also published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, vol. 6, no. 4.24, Summer 2007. Available online.

 

Gill, Candra K. "Cuz the Black Chick Always Gets It First: Dynamics of Race in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks, edited by Emily Pohl-Weary. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004, pp. 39-55.

 

LaBennett, Oneka. "Reading Buffy and 'Looking Proper': Race, Gender, and Consumption Among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn." Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness, edited by Kamari M. Clarke and Deborah A. Thomasm, Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 279-298.

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Masson, Cynthea. “Evil's Spreading Sir... And It's Not Just Over There': Nazism in Buffy and Angel." Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture, edtied by Sara Buttsworth and Maartje Abbenhuis, Praeger, 2010, pp. 179-99.

 

Hawkes, Joel. "A Dodgy English Accent: The Rituals of a Contested Space of Englishness in 'Helpless.'"  Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays, edited by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III, McFarland, 2017, pp. 72-90.

 

Pender, Patricia J. "Whose Revolution Has Been Televised?: Race, Whiteness and 'Transnational' Slayer Suffrage." I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism.  Earlier version available online.

 

McClain, Katia. "Representations of the Roma in Buffy and Angel." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays. Eds. Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017. 127-149.

 

McMurray, Rachel. "'I have no speech, no name': The Denial of Female Agency Through Speech in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays, edited by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III, McFarland, 2017, pp. 51-71.

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Middents, Jeffery R. "A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling)." Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon, edited by Kendra Preston Leonard, Scarecrow Press, 2011, pp. 119-132. Also published in earlier form in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies 17 (2005). Also presented at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, TN, 27-30 May 2004. Available Online.

 

Ono, Kent. "To be Vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Race and ("Other") Socially Marginalizing Positions on Horror TV." Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, edited by Elyce Rae Helford, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 133–65.

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Playdon, Zoe-Jane.  "'What You Are, What's to Come': Feminisms, Citizenship and the Divine." Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel, edited by Roz Kaveney, 2nd edition, I. B. Tauris, 2004, pp. 156-194.

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Rose, Jared S. "'You Know, I'm Extremely Youthful. And Peppy!': Buffy, Playing Girl, and Popular Culture

Representation of Sex-Worker Feminism." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, vol. 5, no. 1 (6),  July 2011.

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St. Louis, Renée and Miriam Riggs. "'And Yet': The Limits of Buffy Feminism." Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association, vol. 8, no. 1 (29), Spring 2010. Available Online.

 

Salah, Patricia (Trish). "Of Activist Fandoms, Auteur Pedagogy, and Imperial Feminism: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to 'I am Dua Khalil.'" Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in Post-9/11 Cultural Practice, edited by Lisa K. Taylor and Jasmin Zine, 2014, pp. 152-174

 

Strehlau, Nelly. "She's White and They Are History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Racialization of the Past and Present." Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays, edited by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III, McFarland, 2017, pp. 91-107.

 

Wilcox, Rhonda V. "'Let it simmer': Tonal Shifts in 'Pangs.' "Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays, edited by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos and Lowery A. Woodall III, McFarland, 2017, pp. 108-124. 

 

Woodall, III L. A, and Mary E. Iatropoulos. Joss Whedon and Race: Critical Essays, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016. Internet resource.

 

FUN FACT: 7 seasons, 12 series regulars, 144 episodes, and btvs never had a person of colour in its main cast!

The subaltern cannot speak. There is no virtue in global laundry lists with ‘woman’ as a pious item. Representation has not withered away. The female intellectual as intellectual has a circumscribed task which she must not disown with a flourish.

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--Gayatri Spivak, Can the Subatlern Speak?, pp. 104

"I have no speech. No name. I live in the action of death, the blood cry, the penetrating wound."--the first slayer (via Tara), Restless 4x22

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Interestingly, there are no Asian-American nor Latino-American characters in Sunnydale, reflecting a mistaken idea that race is “simply black-and-white” without the myriad complexities..."

--Jeffrey Middents, "A Sweet Vamp: Critiquing the Treatment of Race in Buffy and the American Musical Once More (with Feeling)"

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