Racism And Prejudice In The Film Jasper Jones, Directed By Rachel Perkins

Dear White People is a show about black students’ attempt to address and solve racial issues at their predominately white, ivy league institution. Each episode is told from the perspective of the main characters. The point of the film is to communicate a narrative that is not seen enough. The writers rely on stereotypes to certain extents for the purposes of dramatization, but they clearly show how no matter the shade and/or background of the black characters, they are all still directly affected by racism and prejudice around them.

The theme of racism and prejudice was shown throughout the play, it was mainly displayed by the ranger and Tim’s cousin William. There were many examples of the theme of racism and prejudice such as the conversation between Peggy and her father the ranger, During the Conversation

These are just some of the major cases occurring specifically in NYC, smaller pockets of racism were also becoming more frequent. “In between these more notorious tragedies, the number of everyday racial incidents in New York had begun to climb, especially as the decade was drawing to a close” (Sullivan and Boehrer 146). Due to the increase in police brutality and racism, it is no surprise, that Spike Lee, made this significant plague on society a feature point within the film. The picture in turn serves as a social commentary on how many people suffer on a daily basis, and how they manage to survive.

In the movie Miss Congeniality, all of the contestants are asked what they wished for. Coincidentally, all of the pageant contestants replied confidently with ¨world peace.” That famous line has now turned into a well-known punchline due to how stereotypical and obvious it is. All joking aside, that is actually what everyone strives for in their lifetime. World peace has unfortunately been absent in past occurrences. For example, blacks were greatly mistreated by many in a harmful and unkind way. Back when slavery was present, kindness was absent. Despite all of the past happenings, hope for a more loving world still has a chance to prosper.

Scout witnessed and in a way, was a part of the shaming of Walter Cunningham. Walter Cunningham is a classmate of Scout. In the book to Kill a Mockingbird in chapter 2 Miss Caroline is Scout's teacher she is seeing what kids brought for lunch, she stopped at Walter because he didn't have any lunch. Miss Caroline then asked where his lunch is and he just said he didn’t have any, Miss Caroline then tried to give him quarters so he could go out and get food. Jean Louise said “Miss Caroline, he's a Cunningham.” Miss Caroline didn't get it at first why everyone was shaming him. Miss Caroline then realized he would never be able to repay her the quarters. Walter doesn't show up to school except on the first day because he always gets shamed for not having money like everyone else does in school and also for not having shoes. The book to Kill a Mockingbird is during the 1930’s the same time the Great Depression is going on. During the Great Depression many people lived in poverty and needed food, clothing and shelter. There weren't enough jobs for everyone to make enough money for their family’s so kids started to find jobs to help out, In the article A Case of Unemployment it states that “one in four Americans who wanted to work was unable to find a job.” The ones that were trying to find jobs couldn’t and then couldn’t support their family’s anymore. With Walter when he did go to school on the first day he got shamed for not

Birmingham was the most racially discriminatory and segregated city in the 1960’s. Birmingham had one of the strongest cases of the Ku Klux Klan. So many bombs were being fired that it got the nickname of “Bombingham”. While discrimination happened all over the country, racism was at its worst in the south where that Watson's relatives lived. When the watsons traveled to Birmingham, it was in the middle of the civil rights movement. They walked in to discrimination and violence when they arrived. The family experienced many incidents of discrimination and hatred that scarred the kids for life.

Racism is a very ugly word, and it makes a majority of Americans who are aware of our nation’s history squirm in their seat. When Americans think of racism they tend to relate it with slavery. Not many people who look back at the time when slavery was around and racism was abundant feel good about what happened. It can sometimes be a really touchy subject and most people would say it is not a joking matter. Racism has made an everlasting impact on our nation and it still has a major influence on it today.

I believe that this film is so distinctive as my aim was to use visuals and music to convey narrative and emotions and use limited spoken lines, only 10 lines of script to be exact, allowing us to be immersed in the musical collaboration between the films characters in particular Albert Yang and Jim Ryan. The lack of dialogue emphasises the characters quiet agonies and despair in particular Albert’s character. Through silence we are drawn through the effects of racial prejudice and heartache. Albert is the central Indigenous character in this film even though the land becomes the central character in the film, it becomes equal with Albert’s position and perspective. Throughout the film, Albert is seen being excluded from the grounds of racism to eventually becoming vindicated.

Racism is “any action or attitude, conscious or unconscious that subordinates an individual or group based on skin colour or race. It can be enacted individually or institutionally,” (US Civil Rights Commission). In other words, any act, thought, or relation to treating someone as if they are below you based on the color of their skin or ethnic group is the effect of racism. Racism and prejudice is presented in To Kill a Mockingbird on various occasions similar to ones in our past and present. These unfortunate acts are no novel, on the contrary, they have been an issue as far back as the 1600s, when slavery began to take a rise.

This film is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. Paul Haggis tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This film includes

participants can leave the exercise and go back to a safe environment; but the people of colour don’t have that choice. Jane Elliot consistently creates microcosms of society in her classrooms. People are stressed to the point where they begin to experience the racism that many experience on a daily basis. You cannot watch this video without having an emotional response. Before watching this documentary I thought the discrimination in America wasn’t harsh and I didn’t really understand how black people would have felt when they were being separated and made outcastes. This documentary by Jane Elliott really gave me a short but detailed insight of what black people had to endure over the years in America. Discrimination still happens to the

The movie we were assigned to watch gave a powerful glimpse of multiple characters’ struggle with racism or is a racist and how they come to grips with it or how they developed. The following character I chose from this movie was officer Ryan. Officer Ryan looks to be around his early to mid-thirties and has worked for the LAPD police department for extended period of time. Over the course of the movie officer Ryan first shows immense racism in the beginning scenes. When the character is first incorporated into the story he specifically targets an African American couple and has some sort of prejudice towards that race which is later revealed in the movie.

During the slavery era many slaves were identified by using racial terms. Even after slavery ended racism did not necessarily end because minorities still faced many challenges and difficulties. In today’s society racial terms are used very loosely; especially amongst young people. Many people use racial terms as a form of communication and a way to identify individuals. Using racial terms to identify individuals is not acceptable because it is derogatory, promotes continued use of stereotypes, and does not fall in line with today’s cultural evolution.

Stereotypes in regards to discrimination have been a part of our society since before this country’s founding. Many examples of these stereotypes are seen in a various of movies. In the article “Whistling Vivaldi” Steele makes frequent comments about the differences between black and whites stating if you are any color other than white you are in fact less intelligent (2). This is the core problem, in our everyday lives, stereotypes are perceived as facts, without any questions involved. We all function the same on the inside. White, black, or Hispanic.

A Raising in the sun has an unmistakeable focus on the racial problem, something not surprising given the social and familiar background of the author, Lorraine Hansberry. Hansberry, born in 1930, grew up in Chicago, a city which between 1950 and 1960 saw the percentage of black people increase from 14% to 23%. In 1875, 38% of people living in Chicago were black.