no, not really into depth. This sentence : "and its ilk as white fantasies about race" and that one: "When will whites stop making these movies and start thinking about race in a new way" shows, that the writer himself should start thinking about race in a new way.
For me (only read one link, I have to admit), this is just a white person trying to be overly political correct, not more and not less.
And this often leads to strange results.
Just as an example: here in germany they had a disucussion about a school book. Some people claimed it was "mild" racists (sorry, hard to write stuff like that in english for me, I hope you get what I mean).
They claimed in this book only german children where visible - but there have to be other races too - because in school there are a lot of foreign people.
Then the authors said, okay, we rename some of the kids - but that also was not okay, because there was no "visible sign" that they are foreign.
So sometime those overly, political correct people are very racist themselves. Because for them the foreign kids had to be of other color. And apart from that - do we then need different books for different schools? I mean, we have schools where the percentage of foreign people is about 75%, other schools the percantage is probably just 15%. So do we need a book for each "percentage" that reflects the world out there.
If people have to fight about stuff like this, then we still have a "race problem". If people would get over it and simply would not care if its asian, african, european or whatever, then the problem would be solved. But I fear this won´t be the case, because there always will be "anti-" people, there always will be overly political correct people that have to be "anti-anti".
And about stories repeated over and over again - this happens since the greeks.