Dutchman - Thematic Analysis Paper

For the reason, that no matter what race you are, an individual can still be racist and prejudice someone. Although most of the racial slurs were between African-Americans and the Italian- American characters it showed racial perspectives on White and Asian characters as well. Racial tension does answer this issue. The issue of the racial barriers encourages people to be violent in order to express how they feel. The scene in the film when radio

The world has a lot of coffee drinkers and many coffee shops to accommodate these people’s needs. There are so many coffee shops that sometimes it’s hard to choose where to go. I have personally experienced many different coffee shops and they are all the same, calm music, sit down places, with the same variety of coffee. I have found a shop that is different, it’s now my favorite place to go for coffee. It just so happens to be Dutch Bros Coffee.

The tension begins when Radio Raheem ask for 20 D batteries but the owner doesn’t understand what he is saying so he replies by saying 20 C energizers. This part of the scene shows that the African-Americans and the Asians do not understand each other and can’t get along with each other. This scene reflects most of the movie as we see throughout the movie how the African-Americans butt heads with not only the Asians but also with other race and ethnic backgrounds. The dialogue of the scene shows each of the characters cussing at each other and how they feel about each other. The Dialogue shows how the African-Americans in the movie don’t respect these people businesses even if the business are doing something positive in the African-American neighborhood. In the movie we hear the song “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy played in most of the movie but in this scene Radio Raheem is listen to this song in his Boom-Box and then out the nowhere his stereo batteries start to die. The batteries dying shows him losing a piece of him because when he listen to his music he is calm but when his music stops he gets aggravated and

Lula a black woman shows racism towards Scout and Jem who are white kids. While at the black church Lula came up to Calpurnia and said, “I want to know why you bringin’ white chillun to nigger church” (Lee 158). This shows that Lula does not like the fact that Calpurnia brought white kids to a black church. This is the first time that Scout and Jem experience racism toward them. Whites can also experience racism. Aside from adults showing racial prejudice children can also show it.

Oftentimes conflicts are only considered to be only an international difference in opinions, however, conflict can be present as a national issue. In the United States of America, although considered a relatively peaceful country, experiences national conflicts regularly. Dennis Prager says “Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of ‘racial tensions’ is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.” This quote defends the idea that in most cases, the racial tension is one sided and without clear evidence.

Racism is everywhere; it is all around us and at most times it resides within us. Racism basically refers to the characterization of people (ethnicity based) with certain distinct traits. It is a tool with which people use to distinguish themselves between each other, where some use it to purposely inflict verbal, physical or mental attacks on others while some use it to simply distinguish or differentiate from one another. It all depends on the context in which it is used. The play Fences by August Wilson, takes place during the late 1950’s through to 1965, a period of time when the fights against segregation are barely blossoming results. The main protagonist, Troy Maxson is an African American who works in the sanitation department; he

The culture conflict theory is supported in the video in the aspect of racial segregation. This causes power and status struggles between the racial groups as they are struggling to survive their incarceration while attempting to maintain some form of self-worth.

Spike Lee the director creates character in such a way that they all have some sort of racist anger within them. Every interaction between the African American and the whites results in mounting tensions. Some openly threw out ethnic slurs, and barely suppressed the rage that festered within them waiting to come out at any moment. Lee does this in order to show that any small spark could result in a huge conflagration that could burn anything to the ground, be it relationships or friendships. This is the main focus of the

In John Hope Franklins’ The Color Line and Racial Equality In America, he goes into great detail regarding why there is so much racial tension in America

Throughout the history of the country, America has been considered a fairly racist union. From the workplaces to the society, as an Asian, I felt there's a strong barrier between white and black people, although I felt a little bit of racial among us. In this essay, I will talk about the major racial issue of this country through out my experiences.

In 1995, new immigration laws transfigure the American society. As a result, races group together to defend their customs. The current immigration problem also increases the racial tension facing America today. One result of racism in the United States is hate groups and gangs. Both have only one thing in common--violence! The very use of the term of color - which embraces blacks, . . . Asians, Native

Another issue in the movie was attitudes. All races have attitudes towards people that are not like their own, whether they are good or bad. Attitudes I believe are connected with experiences. What one experiences with another race can affect the way their attitude is towards them.

When we try to understand why the characters act as they act and what drives each of them, the viewers are inevitably drawn to the conclusion that they are just like them. They realize they are human; they have both good qualities and bad qualities. Spike Lee also makes them understand that at times they may make terrible mistakes, and that at other times they may display admirable heroism, and that sometimes they simply act without knowing why. Spike Lee does more than try to show his viewers that despite tensions, this Black neighborhood is a community. What Lee does is he makes the viewers think. He simply presents events as they are leaving the viewer to figure out the motives of the characters and the ‘why’ behind the course of events. Lee doesn’t really put a positive light on any particular race while shadowing the other ones. He doesn’t try to make conflicts have an obvious solution. Lee simply re-creates a piece of life, with a little twist of extreme (yet realistic) drama for deeper effect, and by doing this he tries to simply make his audience think and question.

Racism, prejudice and stereotyping, as the main themes of the movie, control all the sub-stories that are somehow linked to each other. Moreover, as the stories go on and events develop, it becomes possible to see how characters start to have changes in their perspective and attitude towards each other, either in a good or a bad way. An incident which can demonstrate our thesis on racism and stereotyping and how it might change in just one moment which brings people closer could be shown as the conflict between the racist police officer and the African American woman who gets harassed by him, and whose life is saved by him on the next day. The first encounter of the woman and the officer resulted with the woman

Baraka uses the character Lula as a devise to mock Clay as being a supposed Uncle Tom.