If orange is the new black, i must be color blind: : Comic framings of post-racism in the prison-industrial complex

• Autores: Suzanne Marie Enck, Megan Elizabeth Morrissey
• Localización: Critical studies in media communication, ISSN-e 1479-5809, Vol. 32, Nº. 5, 2015, págs. 303-317
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The acclaimed Netflix original series, Orange Is the New Black ( OITNB) assembles a cast of characters representing a large swath of the population normally excluded from popular, mainstream television, including women of color, lower-class women, and queer/trans* women. Within the “tribal” organization of the fictitious Litchfield prison, the show's protagonist, Piper Chapman, naively struggles to understand the overt racialization of her new surroundings. Deploying a Burkean understanding of the comic frame, we argue that the first season of OITNB encourages audience identification primarily through the show's white, educated, upper-class central figure. Specifically, through Piper's animation of a comic corrective, OITNB enables poignant but limited critiques of U.S. post-racial fantasies (including myths of color blindness and racial equality) that so powerfully buttress the Prison-Industrial Complex.