Cleverman: an Indigenous TV superhero fighting racism and white supremacy
<p>I am not a fan of superhero movies. From what I’ve seen, most of the mainstream superhero genre is orientalist, racist, misogynist, and profoundly white (<em>Dr</em> <em>Strange</em> is an obvious example here, <a href="http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2016/11/orientalism-whitewashing-and-the-failure-of-imagination-in-doctor-strange/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">on a number of levels</a>). It seems that a modern superhero is not required to fight the forces of state, systematic oppression — particularly if that is race-based oppression.</p>
<p>Instead, for the large part, action superheroes tend to be portrayed literally as white saviours against external (often racialised) malevolent forces. In the case of <em>Suicide Squad</em>, the external menace was literally a powerful dark spirit of pre-European America (which the US government were trying to violently control).</p>
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