Border Patrolling and ‘‘Passing’’ in Eminem’s 8 Mile
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چکیده
This essay argues that the semi-biographical film 8 Mile represents Eminem as being both racially distinctive and as possessing universal commercial appeal. 8 Mile accomplishes this paradoxical construction by portraying ‘‘Rabbit’’ as ‘‘white trash,’’ a discursively ‘‘dark’’ (white) object, and as an American mythological white subject. The film makes whiteness hyper-visible by subjecting it to raced and gendered struggles. Through real and symbolic violence, Rabbit battles ‘‘dark’’ villains and grapples with ‘‘dark’’ women, initiating a rite of passage. The film grounds Eminem’s hip hop authenticity in Rabbit’s discursive darkness, but attaches to this image the marketable allure of mythic whiteness. I conclude by contemplating how the film’s conservatism reifies ‘‘blackness.’’
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