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ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2023.2289152
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Francoist colonialism; Imperial rhetoric and representation; Equatorial Guinea; Situational whiteness; Hispanic whiteness; Mision blanca
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This study analyzes the interactions of racially encoded characters in Francoist cinema, revealing how Spanish whiteness conveyed moral superiority through racial teachings and assimilated non-whites into the fringes of Spanish whiteness, resulting in the suppression and silencing of racial dissidence.
This essay analyzes through the interactions of its racially encoded characters under the lens of whiteness. The objective is to locate the representational strategies that Francoist cultural production used to convey moral superiority through racial teachings. The study specifically examines Francoist practices of racial representation to suggest how Spanish whiteness may have been traditionally situational; that is, conceived as a highly rhetorical cultural tactic to assimilate non-whites into the fringes of Spanish whiteness, which in this historical period led to the totalization and silencing of racial dissidence. As a result, the essay will demonstrate how Francoist cinema displayed rhetorical race notions and situational whiteness in Africa to build relationships of moral superiority with regard to Spain's European counterparts.
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