Are you intrigued by Tarantino's pitch for a western with racial themes?
Rachman quotes him saying that "when China becomes the world's leading nation, it will put an end to Western notions of racial superiority".
Rachman quotes him saying that "when China becomes the world's leading nation, it will put an end to Western notions of racial superiority". The only Western power that might stand in the way of this project of Chinese hegemony is the United States.
And how do western and US institutionalised racial practices distort the socio-political and economic landscape that continuously reinvigorates racism?
The stalemate comes from issues underlying the conflict in Darfur, a region in western Sudan: questions of racial identity, competition for natural resources and the imperatives of a powerful sovereign state.
"The Hateful Eight," which opens Christmas Day, is a western spun through a racial prism, a swift-talking tale of seven suspicious men and one mean woman trapped in a snowstorm in the cruel mountains of Wyoming.
Marijuana was originally outlawed in 1915 in south-western America because of racial prejudice against the Mexican immigrants who smoked it.
Jacques believes that these fundamentally non-Western values, coupled with long-held Han Chinese beliefs in their own innate cultural and racial superiority, challenge Western assumptions about the primacy of individual rights and the principles of institutionalized conflict that lie at the heart of democratic systems.
In becoming the first Western democracy to elect a racial minority to the highest office in the land in 2008, the United States once again demonstrated its "melting pot" quality to the world.
Popular notions of Japan's treachery on the "day of infamy" and its brutality during the war do little to explain the country's urge to be an imperial force, its sense of racial humiliation by Western powers, and the need it felt, as a resource-poor nation with a growing population, to acquire Lebensraum.
