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Posts Tagged: enemy of the state

The Double Agency of Will Smith in Sci-Fi

By Justin Phillip Reed

March 3rd, 2016

Smith’s characters act as witnesses for the rehabilitated offender, the white-supremacist nation-state.

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Tags: Adilifu Nama, After-Earth, Alex Proyas, armageddon, Dawn Lundy Martin, enemy of the state, Film, Fresh Prince, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Hancock, I Am Legend, I Robot, Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, independence day, Independence day: Resurgence, Justin Phillip Reed, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, Men in Black, Night of the Living Dead, racial equality, racial identity, racial politics, Racism, Roland Emmerich, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Brayton, star wars, Strange Days, Supernova, The Matrix, The Omega Man, The Velvet Light Trap, Wild Wild West, will smith

No One Is Innocent

Reviewed By Michelle Richmond

March 7th, 2009

Yiyun Li’s arresting debut novel, The Vagrants, should be required reading for anyone interested in political fanaticism and state-sponsored tyranny.

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Tags: China, enemy of the state, ice, Michelle Richmond, The Vagrants, Tiananmen Square, totalitarianism, yiyun li

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