Daily Kos: Michonne or Maggie? Race, Gender, and Rape on The Walking Dead TV Series

"As I wrote about here, The Walking Dead TV series has little to no interest in developing its African-American characters. The graphic novel has several black male characters who are integral to the story, and are not sideshow stand-ins that are included because of a sense of multicultural political correct noblesse oblige. By contrast, the AMC series has (the now dead) "T-Dog"--a character that was a glorified black man servant chauffeur to the white characters, a black gollum mute with few lines, who lived only to serve and protect the other survivors.

The Walking Dead TV series is ultimately a story about how white male authority is enduring in a world populated by the undead.  "

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