Race, Ethnicity, Art and Film

This paper tries to analyze race relations, ethnicity and how art and film relates to these social issues in their cultural context. Art and film have played vital roles in advocating for a society free of ethnicity and racism. Using vivid descriptions and evidence of both text and a movie this paper seeks to relate accordingly the concerned issues and factors affecting these social vices. It will demonstrate race and ethnic tendencies in diverse cultural contexts.

As a demographic phenomenon, ethnicity is belonging to a specific ethnic group possessing distinct culture and common origin. This is called inscriptive group identity. According to Said Edward (1993) a good introduction to matters of societal concern and especially those of out context should be put into their political and social cultural contexts. Ethnographic ethnicity is a natural phenomenon a form of identity and is politically neutral. Ethnicity in most countries especially African countries determines who gets what, when and how. It is a form of insufficiently developed class relations of production.

Edward depicts that colonization especially in the Ireland. He attempts to appropriate Ireland into conventional post-colonial context. He uses the case study to illustrate that colonization had adverse effects to a country and promoted ethnicity related issues. Large populations of people live in western part of the country. He uses essentialist formulations to put forward his arguments. Majority of Irish people living in immigrated populations are of mixed populations and most of the people have mixed with other immigrants. There ethnic tension seems to exist between the indigenous and the exotic populace.

It should be noted that ethnicity occurs in form of...

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...oughts and ideas about their nationalism tend to express racist views.

This is demonstrated in artistic symbols, drawings and sculptures. In most cartoons or drawings African-American populace are depicted as having large noses. Art can play a major role in advancing literature. Art is described as a procedure of organizing figurative elements in a style that has an effect on the mind, feelings, and brains of a person It involves a variety of human actions, designs and forms of expression such as music, literature, film, photography, sculpture and paintings. The significance of art is looked at in an area of philosophy called aesthetics. Therefore it should not be used to advance racism and ethnicity. It should be used instead to curb or curtail ethnic or racism tensions.

References

Said, E. (1993) In Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf Press.