Coding Others as violent monsters normalizes the hero’s killing of them.

Evidence

Otherness is coded in the presentation of the Tusken Raiders, which serves to normalize the lead human characters and the attributes associated with them. The Tusken Raiders exist as a spectacle of Otherness throughout the Star Wars saga who revel in violence, shooting pod racers across the desert, attacking Luke, torturing Anakin’s mother, which position them as villains and bolster Anakin’s violent actions against them. When Anakin kills them, it is constructed as greatly out of his character and necessary while simultaneously normalizing the relationship between the Tusken Raiders violence and Otherness. Therefore, the narrative is further constructed for Anakin as the symbol of White hegemonic masculinity to naturally kill the Others, the “Sand People”. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 609

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Freire’s original pedagogy relegated animals to ahistorical, non-becoming Others. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1015