Brandon, Katie, and Sam discuss Amazon Prime's recently released series, "Them," and how it highlights the horrors of being Black in America - both today and in the 1950s. But is the series truly art imitating life or degradation porn?

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Good Reads (Books)

https://amzn.to/3bistg3 (Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media) | Ronald Jackson

https://amzn.to/3bistg3 (Reel to Real: Race, Class, and Sex at the Movies) | bell hooks

https://amzn.to/3uIXAc5 (Scenes of Subjugation: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America) | Saidiya Hartman

https://amzn.to/3wfDLKb (Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms) | Frank Wilderson

Shorter Reads and Other Opinions (Articles)

https://tv.avclub.com/the-black-trauma-at-the-heart-of-little-marvin-s-them-i-1846621341 (The Black Trauma at the Heart of Little Marvin's Them is Relentless, but Not Gratuitous) | AV Club | M Shelly Conner

'https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/984614649/them-the-trauma-the-trauma (Them': the Trauma, the Trauma) | NPR | Aisha Harris

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/04/10405476/amazon-prime-them-black-trauma-exploitation (Who Is Them For? Because It's Not Us) | Refinery29 | Ineye Komonibo

https://www.vulture.com/article/review-them-amazon-series.html ('Them' is Pure Degradation Porn) | Vulture | Angelica Jade Bastién