Black Trauma vs. Black Horror

Why has some recent Black horror missed the mark?
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In a genre like horror, where issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class have always been part of the framing of the horror—what is the line between Black trauma and Black horror? How much of our history are we allowed to put into these stories, and how do we communicate our different boundaries to each other without trying to harm or judge?

Sources:

https://www.apa.org/topics/trauma
https://www.mhanational.org/racial-trauma
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/michaelblackmon/black-twitter-was-right-them-isnt-good

Further Reading: "Black Guy Dies First" by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris.

keywords: black horror, film criticism, horror, black trauma, get out, Jordan peele, night of the living dead, them, candyman

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