{"id":50,"date":"2020-08-28T15:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2025-03-12T14:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:07:44","slug":"conclusion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"envira-gallery-wrap-323\" class=\"envira-gallery-wrap envira-gallery-theme-base envira-lightbox-theme-base\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><div data-row-height=\"536\" data-gallery-theme=\"normal\" id=\"envira-gallery-323\" class=\"envira-gallery-public envira-gallery-justified-public envira-gallery-0-columns envira-clear enviratope envira-gallery-css-animations\" data-envira-columns=\"0\"><div id=\"envira-gallery-item-324\" class=\"envira-gallery-item enviratope-item envira-gallery-item-1 envira-lazy-load\" style=\"padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 5px;\"  itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><div class=\"envira-gallery-item-inner\"><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-top-left\"><\/div><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-top-right\"><\/div><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-bottom-left\"><\/div><div class=\"envira-gallery-position-overlay  envira-gallery-bottom-right\"><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/11\/bdr425548_003md-cropped-1.jpg\" class=\"envira-gallery-323 envira-gallery-link\" rel=\"enviragallery323\" title=\"H. P. Lovecraft, &amp;quot;Cthulhu&amp;quot; (1934). Howard P. Lovecraft Collection. Brown University Library, Special Collections.&amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:926701\/&amp;quot;&amp;gt;VIEW IN COLLECTION (BROWN DIGITAL REPOSITORY)&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;\" data-envira-caption=\"H. P. Lovecraft, &amp;quot;Cthulhu&amp;quot; (1934). Howard P. Lovecraft Collection. Brown University Library, Special Collections.&amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:926701\/&amp;quot;&amp;gt;VIEW IN COLLECTION (BROWN DIGITAL REPOSITORY)&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;\" data-envira-retina=\"\" data-thumbnail=\"\"  itemprop=\"contentUrl\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"envira-gallery-image-324\" class=\"envira-gallery-image envira-gallery-image-1 envira-normal envira-lazy\" data-envira-index=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/11\/bdr425548_003md-cropped-1-1024x984-715x480.jpg\" data-envira-src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/11\/bdr425548_003md-cropped-1-1024x984-715x480.jpg\" data-envira-gallery-id=\"323\" data-envira-item-id=\"324\" data-envira-caption=\"H. P. Lovecraft, &amp;quot;Cthulhu&amp;quot; (1934). Howard P. Lovecraft Collection. Brown University Library, Special Collections.&amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:926701\/&amp;quot;&amp;gt;VIEW IN COLLECTION (BROWN DIGITAL REPOSITORY)&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;\" alt=\"H. P. Lovecraft, &quot;Cthulhu&quot; (1934). Howard P. Lovecraft Collection. Brown University Library, Special Collections.\" title=\"H. P. Lovecraft, &quot;Cthulhu&quot; (1934). Howard P. Lovecraft Collection. Brown University Library, Special Collections.&lt;br \/&gt; &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:926701\/&quot;&gt;VIEW IN COLLECTION (BROWN DIGITAL REPOSITORY)&lt;\/a&gt;\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" data-envira-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/11\/bdr425548_003md-cropped-1-1024x984-715x480.jpg 400w,https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/11\/bdr425548_003md-cropped-1-1024x984-715x480.jpg 2x\" data-envira-width=\"300\" data-envira-height=\"288\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/\/\/\/\/yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-safe-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/\/\/\/\/yH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2020\/11\/bdr425548_003md-cropped-1.jpg\" alt=\"H. P. Lovecraft, &quot;Cthulhu&quot; (1934). Howard P. Lovecraft Collection. Brown University Library, Special Collections.\" \/><\/noscript>\n\n<!--[su_image_carousel source=\"media: 254\" slides_style=\"minimal\" controls_style=\"dark\" crop=\"none\" columns=\"1\" adaptive=\"yes\" spacing=\"yes\" align=\"right\" max_width=\"34%\" captions=\"yes\" arrows=\"yes\" dots=\"no\" link=\"custom\" target=\"blank\"]-->\n\n\n\n<p>H. P. Lovecraft&#8217;s race thinking is deeply imbricated with his literary output. This canonical American author&#8217;s work cannot be separated from his abhorrent views on race and cultural exchange. As consumers of media, we need to grapple with the pressing questions: How do we make sense of it? How do we engage with his work? Can we still appreciate it? Lovecraft is one example, but this exercise should be done with all cultural icons. Cultural productions are not epiphenomenal from politics; instead, they are a way of getting at the political subconscious of a society. There is much to learn by critically engaging and interrogating how cultural productions reflect and reify social structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>\u2014 2020 Brown University Library Exhibitions Proctor, Alberto Alcaraz Escarcega, Political Science Ph.D. student<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:34px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Camara, Anthony. 2016. \u201cHow to Hack Lovecraft, Make Friends with His Monsters, and Hijack His Mythos: Reading Biology and Racism in Elizabeth Bear\u2019s <em>Shoggoths in Bloom<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Studies in the Fantastic&nbsp;<\/em>4: 24\u201347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frye, Mitch. 2006. \u201cThe Refinement of the \u2018Crude Allegory&#8217;: Eugenic Themes and Genotypic Horror in the Weird Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts&nbsp;<\/em>17(3): 237\u2013254.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kneale, James. 2006. \u201cFrom Beyond: H. P. Lovecraft and the Place of Horror.\u201d&nbsp;<em>cultural geographies<\/em>&nbsp;13: 106\u2013126.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McRoy, Jay. 2003. \u201cThere Goes the Neighborhood: Chaotic Apocalypse and Monstrous Genesis in H. P. Lovecraft\u2019s &#8216;The Street,&#8217; &#8216;The Horror at Red Hook,&#8217; and &#8216;He.'&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts&nbsp;<\/em>13(4): 335\u2013351.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Price, Fiona. 2016. \u201cProsthetic Pasts: H. P. Lovecraft and the Weird Politics of History.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Genre&nbsp;<\/em>49(2): 135\u2013158.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sederholm, Carl H. and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, eds. 2016.&nbsp;<em>The Age of Lovecraft<\/em>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H. P. Lovecraft&#8217;s race thinking is deeply imbricated with his literary output. This canonical American author&#8217;s work cannot be separated from his abhorrent views on race and cultural exchange. As consumers of media, we need to grapple with the pressing questions: How do we make sense of it? How do we engage with his work? <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/conclusion\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Conclusion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraftracialimaginaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}