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Media images of Black death come at a cost, experts say. And many viewers are fed up


Robeson Taj Frazier was uneasy when he started seeing ads for Amazon s Them, about a Black family in the 1950s being terrorized by hostile white neighbors and supernatural forces.
The USC professor, who is the director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at USC s Annenberg School of Communication, feared that the drama would contain disturbing images of violence and brutality toward Black people, echoing scenes in HBO s Watchmen and Lovecraft Country and other recent projects that mashed up the troubled history of racial turmoil in America with genre elements.
His concerns were underscored when a social media uproar erupted soon after the show s premiere earlier this month. Numerous Black viewers were outraged over its depictions of vicious racist violence, including the murder of a Black infant while his mother is being raped and a scene showing a Black couple being blinded with hot pokers and then burned to death. ....

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Are 'Them' and 'Two Distant Strangers' 'Black trauma porn'?


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Robeson Taj Frazier was uneasy when he started seeing ads for Amazon’s “Them,” about a Black family in the 1950s being terrorized by hostile white neighbors and supernatural forces.
The USC professor, who is the director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment (IDEA) at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication, feared that the drama would contain disturbing images of violence and brutality toward Black people, echoing scenes in HBO’s “Watchmen” and “Lovecraft Country” and other recent projects that mashed up the troubled history of racial turmoil in America with genre elements.
His concerns were underscored when a social media uproar erupted soon after the show’s premiere earlier this month. Numerous Black viewers were outraged over its depictions of vicious racist violence, including the murder of a Black infant while his mother is being raped and a scene showing a Black couple being blinded with hot pokers and then burned to death. ....

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"This Isn't Freddy Krueger": Jeremiah Birkett Talks The Gravity Of THEM


The talented actor behind the show s most controversial character speaks.
By Phil Nobile Jr. · @philnobilejr · April 18, 2021, 11:42 AM EDT
Editor’s note: the following interview contains discussion and depiction of blackface, both historical and as presented in Amazon’s series Them
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Them has provoked a visceral reaction from critics and audiences.
Them follows a Black family moving from North Carolina to Los Angeles in 1953, and the series does not blink in its depiction of the racist atrocities committed against the family in both the deep south and American suburbia (several of its episodes required additional content warnings at the top of them). The anti-Black violence the series portrays is extreme and difficult to watch, and the show has sparked much conversation about the continued presentation of Black trauma as entertainment, with many saying it’s time storytellers (and the platforms hiring them) move past this facet of Black history. Others ....

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