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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain: A Brief List and Analysis of White Savior Films
A White Savior Film (WSF) is a movie that features a white person coming into the lives of a person or people of color (POCs) who are often low-income, troubled, and/or severely oppressed. The troubled times that the people of color are in can be a…
Yes. This.
Related: It bothers the h*** out of me that Kevin Costner in Dances With Wolves supposedly assimilates so perfectly into the native culture, but still manages to fall in love with THE ONLY BLOODY WHITE WOMAN ON THE WHOLE WESTERN CONTINENT.
WTF?
Not that it would make the film less of a WSF if he fell in love with a Lakota woman, but still.
