Rebecca Kumar Abstract: The decade in which Stranger Things is set was a crucial turning point in post-civil rights African-American history. For many, the Reagan-era is associated less with halcyon suburbs like Hawkins, where America was once “great,” and more with the virulently racist War on Drugs, which targeted and criminalized black Americans, constructing them as … Continue reading “We’re all patriots in this house”: American Fantasies of Colorblindness and Border Control in Stranger Things