NEW Article: Why Are Ghosts So White?
Added 2020-10-15 19:25:40 +0000 UTCHello Deathlings!
Louise here. Caitlin is off in Book Writing Land, so she asked me to tend to the dark flock.
Not that y'all are sheep.
Y'all have your own big, opinionated brains, and we love that.
Has this post already gone off the rails? Don't tell.
Just in time for spooky season, we've got a brand new article about ghosts!
I'm personally really excited about this article. There's nothing I love more than ghosts and re-examining our cultural stereotypes about ghosts.
Folklorist and professor Dr. Andrea Kitta teaches classes at East Carolina University on modern medical folklore, urban legends, and the supernatural (where can we sign up?!). Dr. Kitta's years of research and teaching led her to ask the following question, "Why Are the Ghosts So White?" In this article she explores the many ways ghosts teach us about the people and history of a place, but also negatively reinforce every single stereotype that we work so hard to deconstruct. Our own history is haunting us.
"Ghosts reflect how we see the dead and how we understand a place."
YES PLEASE.
So I hope you'll dim the lights and find a cozy place to hunker down with this piece (and maybe a ghost story or two). Dig beyond the thrills and chills and there's a vast world where past and present collide...just beyond the veil. Maybe we'll (un)learn a thing or two :)
Happy October deathlings!
Louise
Comments
I had the same thought as well. Definitely hadn't thought about the differences in the stories/reasons for ghosts on top of that.
Yolanda Hsiao
2020-11-01 17:06:15 +0000 UTCThis was a great and eye-opening read! (Although I admit, my first thought was that it was about why we imagine ghosts as floating white sheets or white (meaning de-saturated of color), half-transparent figures...)
herbst.hexe
2020-10-21 22:50:39 +0000 UTCI love this article. Definitely some great food for thought, especially during a civil rights movement.
Jessica Mantei
2020-10-20 19:09:05 +0000 UTC
