Remember The Titans, is a movie based on actual events that occurred in 1971. Remember the Titans is about how a black high school and a white high school were closed, and the students from both were forced to attend the same school under federal mandate to integrate. In the movie the football team is the main focus because a black man is hired to coach the team over a successful white coach. The team becomes one as the players and parents learn to trust each other, and get along. The reason I Remember The Titans is because I absolutely love sports, I love the movie, and I felt that this movie was a great fit for the topics we have covered. Remember the Titans shows many different interpersonal communication concepts such as, interdependence,…
Racial hierarchy is when there is a belief that some racial groups are favoured or superior than the other based on their racial groups. The lead characters in this movie are voiced by white actors of which in the movie both them and their kids are independent and modern hence they have spent most of their lives in the city. While most of the supporting cast is voiced by non-white actors of which in the movie they grew up in the jungle (wild) and they’re old fashioned.…
For my movie, I picked X-Men First Class. The movie follows how the start of X-Men began via Erik Lancher and Charles Xavier. In the film, the villain Shaw, a mutant, is trying to start World War 3 in hopes of causing mutant dominance. The social justice issue related to this film is race and racial intolerance.…
In the movie, Remember the Titans, it’s about both races; black and white coming together as a team and come together as a family. This film really exploits America’s football and I believe that’s how this team really brought people of both races together. By combining America's love for football and the hatred of one another's race it showed people that race didn’t really matter, we all play the same way. Although the film was very touching and powerful in its message, there are a few things displayed in the movie that does not match up with the history.…
look at the film, Remember the Titans, which is based on this story. It analyzes the film using Gordon Allport’s…
Racism has existed throughout human history, ever since the western world got in contact with people of darker skin-color in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Everything from trade slavery, national regimes and ideologies through the years have played a role in the creation and substantiation of racism. Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another. Racism is treating other people badly or hate on them just because of their characteristics such as skin colour, culture, religion, place of birth, or language.…
The movie tells stories about racism between whites, blacks, Latinos, Koreans, Iranians, cops and criminals. The different levels of the rich and the poor, the powerful and powerless are also shown in the movie. The lives of the characters crash against each other. The most people feel prejudice and resentment against people of other groups.…
Anti-racism is a consistent theme that runs throughout the movie. The movie is set during the 1950’s in the community of Alexandra, a small southern town in the U.S.A. During this time great tension existed between Blacks and Whites. It is within this atmosphere that Blacks and Whites in a college came together to challenge racist attitudes and form friendships. An example of this is shown when the original coach of the titans, Coach Yoast, who is white, has Coach Boone, who is black, over to his house. Coach Yoast has a discussion with Boone about the upcoming coaching position, but he has concerns about a black coach coaching a mixed coloured team. Boone…
Storey (2009) clarifies on page 167 that there is only one human race and within that human race there are different divisions of “races”. In addition, race can be used as a sign or meaning, and also show the importance by taking certain actions. Certain movies and cinema can reflex the significance of race and multiracial and multiethnic dimension, by depicting them either working together or against each other towards a common goal or outcome. Storey states we need to understand that ‘race’ and racism are not natural occurrences; they are a result of human actions and interactions (Storey, 2009, pp. 168).…
“People say that it can't work, black and white; well here we make it work, every day. We have our disagreements, of course, but before we reach for hate, always, always, we remember the Titans.” Remember the Titans is a movie based on a true story about racism and discrimination. In 1971, the blacks and the whites were forced to integrate schools in Alexandria Virginia. Coach Boone (black male) was hired to replace Coach Yoast (white male) as the head football coach for the High School. The team struggles to become a “team” and is often found fighting each other. It takes a lot of time and effort for the team to get on each other’s side and learn they must stick together if they want to overcome the obstacles they’re facing. The team goes…
It seems like television writers run out of jokes so they go for an easy joke to fall back on. So that’s why they always create a character to aim at. Rather that be; the dumb brother or the goofy dad, it’s always easy to take a shot at them. However there is an issue when it comes to race in these television sitcoms we see today. For example in the hit television show Modern family. Gloria, Columbian mother who marries a rich white man, is always being picked on because of her accent or for her lack of knowing any of the references. It is like the writers purposely make it so that all immigrant women are hot headed, loud, dumb bimbos. I agree they can be loud however for them to purposely make fun of her is wrong. Another example of this is…
Cofer’s passage reminded me of the many stereotypes that exist in popular culture today. Contrary to popular belief, electing an African American as President of the United States does not mean that racism is dead. Furthermore, Hispanics are not the only victims. While Cofer focuses mainly on the more obvious forms of racism, I’d like to call attention to the more subtle mentions. For example, recently I read an article for a class that discussed the racism faced by Middle Easterners in the United States. In the article, the author blamed popular culture for proliferating negative stereotypes. The Disney movie “Aladdin” was utilized as an example of such racism. Such racism can be seen in the lyrics of “Arabian Nights,” which states:…
The movie started off with the Birmingham, Alabama church bombing, which resulted in the murder of 4 innocent young girls, and later on in the film a young black man by the name of Jimmily Jackson was murdered by a state trooper for being in a non-violent protest and he didn't fight back. All these murders happening left and right all out of hate because the of the pigment of someone's skin, because in the sick minds of some people being a shade darker than someone meant that they aren't…
1. I believe this critique does have value in the arguments it is presenting. Crash does not spend much time directly addressing the conditions that cause racism to take root within people, but it does certainly hint at it or circles around it in ways that could be familiar for an audience member. For instance, Officer Ryan’s racism seems to be rooted in his father’s business failure in the perceived blame of affirmative action. He told Shanique that she only got her position in work, despite more “qualified white men” who deserved her place, because of the help she received from affirmative action.…
In Qu’est-ce-qu’on a fait au Bon Dieu?, the use of second degree-humor allowed the viewer to see that the discourse surrounding race in the film was more complex than a single black-white binary; all of the characters, regardless of whether or not or not they were minorities, engaged in some form of racism with one another. Firstly, it is very easy to see for the viewer that Claude and Marie are representative of the old, white, bourgeois population that is commonly associated with racism. For example, in the beginning of the movie, at a family dinner, Claude begins making racist jokes about Barbes, saying he was in Bab el Oued, and when confronted, says, “Can’t we debate without anger?” (9:33). This represents the top-down, vertical racism…