Readings

Helen Young, “Game of Thrones’ Racism Problem”, The Public Medievalism (21 July 2017) https://www.publicmedievalist.com/game-thrones-racism-problem/

Shiloh Carroll, “Postcolonialism, Slavery, and the Great White Hope” in Medievalism in A Song of Fire and Ice and Game of Thrones (Boydell and Brewer, 2018): https://doi-org.prxy.lib.unbc.ca/10.1017/9781787441941.005

Kaufman and Sturtevant, Chapters 3-4.

Game of Thrones Episodes

Episodes 25-29

Focus on Episode 30 “Mhysa”

Podcast

I speak with Dr. Shiloh Carroll, author of Medievalism in a Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones (Boydell and Brewer, 2018).

Podcast episode available here: Episode 2: Race, racism and the white saviour complex

Podcast References

For some resources to help you explore race and racism in Game of Thrones, see:

Cord J. Whitaker, “Game of Thrones’ Peasants are a Problem of White Supremacy–and Its Victims, too” (May 19, 2019) https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2019/05/game-of-thrones-peasants-are-problem-of.html

Stefani Engelstein, “Is Game of Thrones Racist?” (April 10, 2019) https://medium.com/dukeuniversity/is-game-of-thrones-racist-5e58a73f27bc

Dorothy Kim, “Teaching Medieval Studies in a Time of White Supremacy” (August 28, 2017) https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2017/08/teaching-medieval-studies-in-time-of.html

Isis Nelson, “White Saviorism in HBO’s Game of Thrones” (August 1, 2016) https://medium.com/@isisnelson/white-saviorism-in-got-df860b24d972

Ben Philippe, “Missandei, Grey Worm, and Game of Thrones’ Racial Blind Spot” (April 22, 2019) https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/04/game-of-thrones-missandei-grey-worm-season-8-episode-2

Aja Romano, “Game of Thrones’ Missandei controversy, explained” (May 6, 2019) https://www.vox.com/2019/5/6/18530526/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-4-death-who-died-missandei-daenerys

Jennifer Vineyard, ” Game of Thrones: Grey Worm’s fate surprised everyone but the man who plays him” (April 29, 2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/arts/television/grey-worm-game-of-thrones.html

Matthew Yglesias, “Game of Thrones’ Dany/Dothraki storyline doesn’t make any sense” (June 3, 2016) https://www.vox.com/2016/6/3/11834606/game-of-thrones-dany-dothraki-no-sense

Laurie, Timothy. “Serialising Gender, Breeding Race: Biopolitics in Game of Thrones.” Paper delivered at Trans/Forming Feminisms: Media, Technology, Identity. November 23-25, 2015.

Young, Helen. “Place and Time: Medievalism and Making Race.” Year’s Work in Medievalism 28 (2013): 1-6.

Downes, Stephanie and Helen Young. “The maiden fair: 19th century medievalist art and the gendered aesthetics of whiteness in HBO’s Game of Thrones.” Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 10.2 (2019): 219-235.

Hardy, Mat. “The East is Least: the Stereotypical Imagining of Essos in Game of Thrones.” Canadian Review of American Studies 49.1 (2019): 26-45.