Spike Lee goes histrionic in “Chi-Raq”, a modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ Greek play, ‘Lysistrata’, here transferred to a problematic Chicago. It seems that the film didn’t please the Chicagoans who, during two hours, had to watch the women from their city going into a sex strike that aims to stop the local gangsters from shooting one another and kill innocent people in the streets. Through the lame slogan ‘No peace, No pussy!’, a group of women, led by the activist Miss Helen (Angela Bassett), decide to punish the dopey thugs and bring justice to the killing of a little girl who was playing in the surroundings of her home. This coward act shocked the neighborhood, including the lively Lysterata (Teyonah Parris), who becomes a fierce booster of the movement despite being the girlfriend of Demetrius (Nick Cannon), a rapper and violent gang leader, who carries a difficult childhood on his shoulders.…
Question #1: Using Hagedorn’s analysis of the Hamburgs, and the Conservative Vice Lords in Chicago, and the Crips and Bloods video’s analysis of gangs in LA, discuss how Hagedorn’s concept of demoralization, and Cornell West’s concept of nihilism, have an objective basis in the historical structure of Chicago’s and LA’s racism.…
Longtown, Ohio was a town full of mixed raced families and blacks and whites are in every family's blood. Segregation, discrimination,prejudice, these words are not definitions for this town. This has been like this since the town's been made with no racial problems. It was founded by James Clemens, who was a free slave in Virginia who became a rich farmer. Longtown could be the best non racial towns in The United States.…
There is a long history about blacks in Miami, including the earliest black pirates in 1640s, the Bahamian fishermen, the black escaped slaves from mainly Georgia in 1700’s, and the large group of blacks from Georgia and Alabama in the 1880s and 1890s. Segregation was the first challenge that the black communities of Miami had to face. Miami was incorporated as a city in 1896, as Henry Flagler extended his railroad to Miami. In the same year, the Overtown, used to be called colored town, was established, and it was exclusively for blacks. The railroad separated Overtown from rest of communities, but kept it close enough for blacks to get to work. It was highly segregated community so that blacks were not allowed to leave Overtown in the night.…
Institutional racism is a form of racism that is centered towards a certain group or individual that are discriminated against based on the color of their skin. It can result in internalized oppression by making an individual or group feel not wanted. For example, Asian Americans and Latino/as both share collectivism and group identity. Some Latinos are here illegally but in society, they are treated like they are not wanted, and they are taking all of the jobs and not paying taxes. Counselors needs to be aware about Latino and Asian cultures and not discriminate. Asian Americans describes depression as a physical symptom for example, pain, and discomfort instead of a feeling. Asian parent’s shares old culture of shame and honor, it get passed…
The movie promotes racial awareness, but like any conversation about race, it demands close inspection. We see a variety of African American men and women, several Hispanic characters, a Persian family, and several Asians. A scene will switch to another only because the initial characters story line is intersecting with that of the next. We meet the Cabot family because two young black men, stars in the scene, steal their car. Likewise, the Hispanic locksmith looking to make a living for his family is hired at the shop of the Persian man struggling with life as an immigrant. These are the lead characters, all intertwined in their daily lives. An idea or event is presented from the perspective of one person or family, and then the same event is expanded on by another characters connection to it. to present racism: Most of the characters are provided life circumstances to help us see where they are coming from The circumstances include Officer Ryans sick father, Jean Cabots depression, and the shopkeepers struggle with being a new immigrant. Each serves as an excuse for the characters racism (or at least a way to lessen its severity).…
"We have more work to do when more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America." President Barack Obama.…
Senna grew up in an urban chaos, in a home filled with artists and political activists. Her mother married a tall handsome black man. The former was being rebellious against her mother, an Irish woman, who still believed in noble bloodline. The grandmother spent most of the days passing judgment on the world. There was already a conflict between her grandkids; they were all mixed.…
Is it necessary for the people to worrying about the white privilege and the impact of oppression and racial issues in America? It is necessary for the people worrying about white privilege and the impact of oppression and racial issues in American like for instance problem with the classiest, poverty, and white privilege that continue to exist between white American and Chinese American. Another reason for the people to have anxiety about white privilege and the impact of oppression and racial issues in American like for instance, Chinese American is suffering racism from white American for being treats in economic and job opportunity. There is also an important area of social justice for white privilege and the impact of oppression and racial…
In class we read to reading about how was the discrimination. At both the angel island detains and the Japanese American internus experiences discrimination, like racism, unemployment and the education. In the 1940’s the discrimination was the most current way to abuse other people. The effects of those discrimination were by losing their financial loses for their rights. The abuse agents the Chinese was “when the Chinese arrived to put down their language and they pushed them toward the build.…
Throughout history racism has been a large issue, people are afraid of things that are different from them and sometimes hate others that don't perfectly agree with them. This is, in large part, due to a lack of understanding of other cultures, or, sometimes, blaming an entire race for the past mistakes of one person or small group of people.…
Research and analysis clearly illustrate the concept that issues related to racism have created an immense impact on various activities undertaken by individuals in diverse communities as well as the social structure in the different nation across the globe. Racism has been ascertained to entail the labeling of diverse group categories, related cognitive structures, beliefs, feelings, and identity. The factors have also been explained and expressed in the lines of behavior and interaction, which flows from reconstituting and reinforce, and even change the social categorizations existing among communities. Scholars illustrate the notion that racism has a direct implication on the structure and primary conditions of social discrimination. Over the years, it has been found out that discrimination, racism, and race are also fundamental, and form the mechanism and basis of a hierarchical differential, which shapes the ordering of various…
Racism is something that’s learnt, not something you’re born with. Racism within the community is an extremely prevalent problem within the eyes of the minority as the oppression causes difficulty within job opportunities, a bias opinion from the community and a failure to communicate their opinions.…
The goal of this study was to examine individuals’ opinions about racism and if racism exists and how it effects multiple races. The participants used throughout this study were all students at the University of West Georgia. In all, there were 36 surveys distributed to the students in the Sociology class and 18 students were verbally asked the survey questions and recorded, which serves as an interview. The students within the Sociology class were used as a random sample and the students that were asked verbally were chosen based of certain criteria. The study chosen required the opinions of both female and males of African American, Caucasian, Native American, Hispanic, Asian and any other race that we could contact. We verbally interviewed 6 African American, 5 Caucasians, 2 Asians, 2 Hispanics and 3 individuals that were…
for any reason to take out their anger on the unlucky black victim" ( Kennedy…