![]() ![]() ![]() “One of the things we see with the Fire nation is the ideological justification for what they’re doing,” says Olomi. With the Black Lives Matter movement casting a spotlight on the ripples still felt by slavery and colonialism, the political timbre of Avatar speaks powerfully to the reckoning with institutional racism provoked by the death of George Floyd.Īli A Olomi, an assistant professor of Middle East, Islamic and global south history at Penn State University in Pennsylvania, uses the series to demonstrate to students the impact of genocide, colonialism, imperialism, intergenerational trauma, radicalisation, surveillance and parental abuse. Resurrected after 100 years frozen in ice, he finds that his people have been the victim of genocide by the Fire nation. The show was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and follows the adventures of the effervescent and indefatigable Aang, the 12-year-old Avatar and last air-bender.
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