Straight Outta Sacred Place Film Analysis

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By contrasting modern day situations to the time period of the 80’s where the movie Straight Outta Compton takes place, we can see that the racism present in the movie is still ongoing today. A key point that is portrayed both within the present and the movie is that minorities are constantly being targeted by authorities such as police officers. As well, we can see that by comparing the genre of rap then in comparison to now, we can see that racism is still prevalent in this form of music. The last issue that is brought up is that minorities are still not being called “artists” even though they create the same music that white people make. All these are ideas that are presented in the film. We can therefore state that racism is …show more content…

During that time period, racism was extremely present in the media. This was done by having a lack of representation of the minorities in the media. White people were in all types of media while minorities such as Asians or Africans were never shown. Even now this is still true to an extent. If we turn on the TV, we see white people taking lead roles in movies where black or Asian people should be in that role. An example of this would be Dragonball Evolution being created into a live action movie from a Japanese cartoon series. Although the cartoon series is of Asian origin the main role was given to a white person, although it was intended for an Asian (8). This itself is racism where roles meant for Asians are given to white people to suppress the exposure of Asians within the media. Even magazines in that time period had predominantly white people. If we were to google “1980’s magazines”, we can see on the covers that there are only white men or women. We see next to no black or Asian men or women. Now, although it is slightly better, Asian and black people are still only in a fraction of magazines covers compared to white people. Racism is still taking place in magazines due to the covers of most magazines being predominantly white people, which is suppressing the racial diversity needed in magazine covers. Music in itself doesn’t have much racial diversity either. Asians for example, are hardly ever heard in the music industry. If one would attempt to count famous Asian singers, we can count that with our fingers meanwhile, if we would do the same with white singers, we could name countless artists beyond the number of fingers we have. An article recently published has also commented on how there are very few successful mainstream Asian musicians in main American music “When it comes to Asian musicians in mainstream American music,

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