{"id":99203,"date":"2026-03-19T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99203"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:07:41","slug":"district-9-and-the-story-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/03\/19\/district-9-and-the-story-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>District 9<\/em> and the Story of &#8220;Race&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I9-6LeppY7E?si=r83axaN7Je7sFuWT\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 14 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Modern society has become a bit obsessed with the idea of race. <em>District 9<\/em> subverts some of these assumptions and points at some of the ways that the entire concept of race is a product of the modern era. This one meanders a bit, but I suppose there\u2019s no way around that. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n02:45 Meet Wikus<br \/>\n05:42 Subverting Race<br \/>\n08:35 Bacon&#8217;s Rebellion and Trans-Racial Wikus<br \/>\n12:32 Let&#8217;s Talk About Rhodesia<br \/>\n14:48 Perspectives and Narratives<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 New Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\nStill plugging <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 also on Kobo<br \/>\nkobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/ninti-s-gate?sId=f30f9d90-907a-449a-aeab-7b25215297f1\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 14 Nov 2025 Modern society has become a bit obsessed with the idea of race. District 9 subverts some of these assumptions and points at some of the ways that the entire concept of race is a product of the modern era. This one meanders a bit, but I suppose there\u2019s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53],"tags":[86,1593,122,99,1217,85,252],"class_list":["post-99203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-criticism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-movies","tag-racism","tag-rhodesia","tag-sf","tag-southafrica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pO3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99204,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99203\/revisions\/99204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}