Jan 25, 2021
‘Bridgerton’ Is a Gilded Failure of Imagination
Whiteness, not a fantasy, is what grants the Black English aristocracy its legitimacy in this fictional world.
Natasha Oladokun is a poet and essayist. She holds fellowships from Cave Canem, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Jackson Center for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review Online, Pleiades, Kenyon Review Online, Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is Associate Poetry Editor at storySouth, and was the inaugural First Wave Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Fall 2018-Spring 2020.
Whiteness, not a fantasy, is what grants the Black English aristocracy its legitimacy in this fictional world.
