In the film, the 13th directed by Ava Duvrernay it discusses racial injustices amongst black individuals and how systemic racism has been destroying black families and keeping white people in power. The implementation of new laws and presidents that continued to keep blacks oppressed in an oppressive system was a vital point that Ava Duvrernay depicted in the film. The film showcase the difference between being white and black with evidence such as white privilege, black oppression, and backlash of past laws. The film focused on how and why black people are in their current situation based on being criminalized and stereotyped. The history of criminalizing starts with creating stereotypes that depict black Americans in a harmful way. In addition, …show more content…
the movie provides truthful events that individuals need to understand in order to realize how blacks have been oppressed into second-class citizens in American society.
In the film 13th, it discusses how problematic stereotyping is and how it affects people and the role it has in history. The film Birth of a Nation created stereotypes and lead the way for black Americans to be criminalized and killed. This film leads to the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan and an increasing number of black Americans being hanged. It also received support from the president Woodrow Wilson who had a personal screening of Birth of a Nation, he called it history written with lighting. This type of support from the president is huge and allows for discrimination and racial violence to continue. The history of racial injustice is what the film depicts and uses as its evidence to show the world racism in America.
Ava Duvrernay gives a clear and perfect insight on how racial oppression has continued and what are the causes for this continuation of racial injustice. This film could
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be used to educate everyone on racial discrimination for whites and blacks that could help push a movement to end systemic racism. It has so many elements that are important and significant to the history of discrimination. For example, in the film 13th, The 13th amendment states that you are free, but if you are arrested an individual loses those rights, so you basically can be put into the form of a slave. This concept leads the way for black men to be criminalized in order to keep them as a slave. I believe Ava Duvrernay was trying to allude to the distinction that prison is just another form of slavery. In addition, to the prison system, Ava Duvrernay discusses how blacks have been criminalized to become victims of the systems. She discusses super-predator, blacks and drugs, and how the media represented the black man to be a savage. The term super-predator is used for blacks to criminalize them into an oppressive state. They are viewed as people with no conscience, no empathy, a new stereotype to criminalize black individuals. Cory Greene, stated, “when you make people afraid you can always justify putting them in the garbage can.” John Ehrlinchman who was Nixon advisor stated, “that the goal was to criminalize blacks and the antiwar, to disrupt black communities, homes, and vilify them night after night on the news, by associating them with marijuana.” All these concepts make it easier for white America to abuse, mistreat, and kill black Americans. If you can push the agenda that blacks are savages, animalistic, and brutes it makes it easier to have support for an oppressive system that will continue to destroy black people. However, this a great film but, I would have liked to witness some of the reason why white people wanted to continue to oppressed blacks. I would like to hear Ava Duvrernay state, that white people were lazy and that they manipulated the system to keep blacks their servants. The film could have also been slightly more engaging with its audience because it continues with the same steps, for example, a person talks and discusses racism, then it shows a historic video. I believe that it could have added some clips from historic films similar to the film The Piano and then described the scenes that have racial importance. Overall I do believe that the film presented and gave the proper representation of what it was trying to convey. It also did not lose it focus point and overall message of the film. In conclusion, the film accomplishes it goal in terms of development, reaching the audience, and providing specific examples that describe past events.
For example, it discusses how Fred Hampton was a positive figure and was killed for being a black leader that could make a change. In the film, it alludes to the assumption that Fred Hampton, the head of black panthers, was killed most likely because of his encouragement and outlook on race. He brought together whites, blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans to push for equality. The film also depicts the increase prison population of black Americans which in 2001 rose to 878,400 which was more than the entire prison population in the seventies and eighties combine. There is also evidence stating that the goals were to basically tear apart the black family. Lee Atwater was recorded saying you “start out by saying, nigger, nigger, nigger in 1954, and that you can say that anymore in 1968, it backfires, so you say things like state rights, and forced bussin.” This is coherent with John Enlrichmen statement about criminalizing black people. If you are interested in learning truthful events about black history you should buy this film. If you want to become more aware of racial inequality you should buy this film. This film we give you a clear indication of how and why black Americans have been oppressed in American
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This film represents our indigenous culture and regardless of what happens we can find good in a situation. Together the black and white community can come together and achieve more than they could ever do by themselves.
The film starts with an uprising after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident Highlights Prejudices. The teenager was labeled a thief because of the color of his skin and the unjustifiable murder causes racial tensions that exist as a result of the integration of the high schools.
...lot of the historical events that took place in the report in the movie. He could have made them a little more accurate but I feel like that would have taken away from the movie. It would have made it more historical instead of making it grab my attention as it did. After reading the article The Rosewood Massacre and watching the film Rosewood, I learned that blacks were very easily subject to racial prejudice. Whites were gullible and persuaded to do things no matter how wrong or what harm it could cause to others. I knew the justice system was unfair but it seemed as if they did not have one at all or justice was only for whites. The Rosewood Massacre time period was not one I would wish anyone to be a part of; it was horrible.
The first social issue portrayed through the film is racial inequality. The audience witnesses the inequality in the film when justice is not properly served to the police officer who executed Oscar Grant. As shown through the film, the ind...
The film observes and analyzes the origins and consequences of more than one-hundred years of bigotry upon the ex-slaved society in the U.S. Even though so many years have passed since the end of slavery, emancipation, reconstruction and the civil rights movement, some of the choice terms prejudiced still engraved in the U.S society. When I see such images on the movie screen, it is still hard, even f...
In conclusion, after view this film, it is clear that one can see how black youth are being viewed as killers and savages. This is not true. There have been many admirable scholars and scientists who come from the African American culture. This movie, though it depicts what goes on in South America, takes the violence committed by black youth too far. One cannot view a film and take it that this is what a race is like. The filmmakers depicted black youth in a harsher light.
This demonstrates to us that no matter how much your legal or moral laws are violated, what matters is how you as an individual react to the situation, justly or unjustly. This movie is centered around the notion that if you are a person of ethnic background, that alone is reason for others to forsake your rights, although in the long run justice will prevail
I have always believed that all races have their good and bad. Their is never going to be the perfect race. This movie definitely set a powerful message that life is not perfect for any race and that even though people are from different cultures, they are all interconnected somehow. The filmmakers did a great job at showing us that individuals should not be based on first impressions such as skin color or the social status.
The movie the 13th centralizes that African-Americans are often criminals or dangerous in the eyes of the law. Since the end of slavery black people has always been at a disadvantage here in America. The novel All American Boys tells a story about how a good black kid, Rashad, gets beat up by a cop and a white kid, Quinn, who goes to the same school and is the same age and grade as Rashad and is seen as this “All American Boy,” seen it and goes through about if it was right or not. Both the novel and the movie has something to do between the two races, white and black. There’s always something that happens to a black person that leads to controversy and news.
During the period after the emancipation many African Americans are hoping for a better future with no one as their master but themselves, however, according to the documentary their dream is still crushed since even after liberation, as a result of the bad laws from the federal government their lives were filled with forced labor, torture and brutality, poverty and poor living conditions. All this is shown in film. First, after emancipation, federal laws revived slavery into new form. After slaves were freed during post- civil war, the whites especially those in the south faced problems in running their plantations; since there was no free labor force from slaves, and also some whites who had never owned slaves saw the African Americans as undesirable competition. I think the laws enforcements eventually became the method through which slavery of blacks take its new form.
The Birth of a Nation (1915) is one of the most controversial movies ever made in Hollywood, some people even consider it the most controversial movie in the long history of Hollywood. Birth of a Nation focuses on the Stoneman family and their friendship with the Cameron’s which is put into question due to the Civil War, and both families being on different sides. The whole dysfunction between the families is carried out through important political events such as: Lincoln’s assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Kan. D.W. Griffith is the director of the movie, and him being born into a confederate family in the South, the movie portrays the South as noble and righteous men, who are fighting against the evil Yankees from the North, who have black union soldiers among them, whom overtake the town of Piedmont, which leads the KKK to take action and according to the movie become the savior of white supremacy. During this essay, I would focus on the themes of racial inequality, racism, and the archetypical portrayal of black people in the movie, which are significant especially during the era when the film was released.
The views of African-Americans have changed drastically from the 1930s to 1980s and the film industry has been able to captures some of the more dramatic changes on film. Dating back to the 1930s, there has been films produced that depicted African-Americans as docile individuals who live to serve white families. As times changed and America made progress in integration of cultures, African-American rose to a new role on the big screen. Initially, African-Americans were introduced on the screen as closer equals to their white counter parts. However, these films did not accurately depict African-Americans as whites wrote the roles. America made greater strides towards equality in all areas, including the film industry that allowed for the development of new roles for African-Americans. This grittier and more intense approach was only achieved through African-Americans taking on the major behind the scenes. African-Americans were only to achieve a more accurate depiction onscreen as American’s perceptions of race were challenged over a 50-year period and African-Americans took on roles behind the scenes.
In Ava DuVernay’s film 13th, she analyzes the pioneering events that led up to this toxic system known as the Prison Industrial Complex. She critically examines how the same golden ticket that, supposedly, granted our freedom was the same rabbit hole that kept black Americans in a cycle of slavery. DeVernay illuminates the ideology that if this system of “militarism, racism, and capital” could somehow manage to criminalize black Americans, their institutions could continue and perhaps excel. Jordan Camp & Christina Heatherton’s Policing the Planet expounds upon this ideology that allowed those systems of “militarism, racism, and capital” to maintain power. Broken windows policing, “emerges as an ideological and political project,”(2) ideological in the sense of DeVernay’s examination of embedding criminality in the character of the black individual.
There are two main issues in the movie the “The Color of Fear” that I will discuss. These two issues include grouping people of color on the basis of the way one looks, and the attitudes of different races towards one another. Including also the idea that the white “do-gooder” feels that subconsciously racism is being taken care of, when in all reality it isn’t. The eight men in The Color of Fear candidly discussed racism not only as "whites oppressing blacks," but also the less addressed sides of racial trouble in America. A white man earnestly stating that he had never oppressed anyone in his entire life, and a Hispanic man talking about being afraid of driving in front of pickup trucks with gun racks, shows how there needs to be more progress towards ending these feelings in America. Stereotypes were openly declared, from Asians as "the model minority" to blacks as "lazy, violent, and dangerous."
In the Following essay I will explore and develop an analysis of how the movie Twelve Years A Slave produces knowledge about the racial discourse. To support my points, I will use “The Poetics and the Politics of Exhibiting Other Cultures” written by Henrietta Lidchi, a Princeton University text “Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity” and “Can the Subaltern Speak?” by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.