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Who Watches the Watchmen? Race and Policing Through the Lens of Popular Entertainment

This Week in Dystopia by Sarah Grucza

Jun 29, 202001:17:46Government & Organizations

When HBO series Watchmen premiered in October 2019, the show—a dramatically different take on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s original comic book/graphic novel—was noted for its direct confrontation of racism in America. S...

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