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"Who's Zoomin' Who?": On "Passing" and the Intersection of Race and Humanity in Alien Resurrection
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David S. Neale Lewis Gordon AA 10 August 9, 1999 "Who's Zoomin' Who?": On "Passing" and the Intersection of Race and Humanity in Alien Resurrection This paper will detail an observed theme of "passing" in Alien Resurrection (AR). In this film the two characters who pass are Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Call (Winona Ryder). But instead of passing as a racial other-at least in terms of how we think of phenotypically racial characteristics on the body-Ripley and Call pass for human. Lewis Gordon's reading of Pico Della Mirandola's scheme of humanity assists recognition of this observed theme of passing in AR. In addition, the information about the history of racial passing in Naomi Zack's Race and Mixed Race is of useful comparative value; for as this paper will show, the structuring paradigm involved in human passing in AR seems to correlate, both positively and negatively, with that involved in racial passing. To understand the observation...
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