Nightmare on Main Street: On Racial Violence and the Problem of Convention
Zandria F. Robinson · 11/07/15 02:35PMIf this were a slasher film, one of the teenage protagonists, most likely a young girl running from a masked assailant who knew what she did last summer, would slip in the buffed and shiny halls of Main Street High, the camera zooming in on her screaming face as we brace for the inevitability of what will happen to her.