The Hidden White Supremacist Backstory in Twilight

A small, but jarring detail on close inspection in the Twilight franchise, is the lore given to Jasper Hale, brother-in-law of Edward Cullen and fellow member of the saga’s core vampire clan. Hale, while a supporting character, is exemplary of Meyer’s use of American history and its racial anxieties to construct fantasies that are shaped by racial hierarchy. More so, the character highlights a disturbing ahistoricism on Meyer’s part in her absolve of figures of one of America’s worst racial atrocities. In the third instalment of the saga, Eclipse, Hale reveals to Bella Swan his origins in Texas – as a member of the Confederate Army.

To make matters worse, the canon Twilight lore dictates that Jasper Hale was a senior-ranking member of the Confederacy when he was “turned” into a vampire. “I…

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