Black Panther and the Alt-right: networks of racial ideology

Abstract

This essay analyzes how far-right paratexts enunciate and circulate frameworks of interpretation that situate the film, Black Panther, as a Trumpian homage. Such rubrics travel through an interconnected media ecosystem and use the film to promote the views of the far-right, adoration for Donald Trump, and a postracial, neoliberal worldview. Analysis of these paratexts demonstrates how white supremacy relies on a wealth of circulated logics that can be deployed thru novel texts and considers the implications of contemporary media environments for ideological formations.