Adoration For Whiteness

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reverence for the wealth and power the family possessed. This symbolises the quest that many minorities face as they strive to enter the middle class. Leonardo would argue that Chris, like many minorities’, navigates a society that saturates them with loving images of Whiteness. In this reality two key consequences arises: an adoration for whiteness or a “turning of the necrophiliac gaze on themselves through self-hatred” (Leonardo, 2013). It is Chris’ transition through these stages that is such a pivotal part of the movie. It is this admiration for whiteness that leads to deprivation that traps Chris in a symbolic sunken place. In the movie, Chris’ “sunken state” is triggered by the silver spoon. A metaphor for how the quest for the materialization

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