Movie Analysis: 'Whites And African-Americans As Represented In The Film'

Immigration is a complex and multifaceted issue that faces the US. In his film, Sin Nombre (2009), director Cary Fukunaga aims to juxtaposition the issue of immigration with the issue of gang violence in Mexico, and show the difficulties immigrants face by giving his audience an insider’s perspective into the experience of immigrating to the United States from Honduras. He does this through a variety of characters; most notably Willie and Sayra. Fukunaga did extensive research on life in the Mara Salvatrucha gang and the process of immigrating to America, in order to make his film realistic and authentic. The result is a movie that not only shows immigration in a way that evokes empathy and enforces the humanity of immigrants in the viewer’s mind, but also gives the viewer a look into the realities of being in a gang. Through the use of strong characters, powerful dialogue and vivid imagery, Fukunaga uses pathos to put a human face to the issue of immigration, logos to inform and give his audience context about the issues the film addresses, and ethos to establish his credibility and make the film believable.

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 main message in the film was a realization. The producer believes that the Arizona government were fearful of the change brought in through the Raza Studies Program. They believed that the course was grouping the students based on their race or ethnicity. In the documentary, Hispanic Studies is

The stereotype on Latinos el Bandido is based not only on ethnic but also behavioral, where they are deemed violent and antisocial, different nationality, as in not belonging to the North America and psychological where they are associated with alcoholic, prostitution and being unstable. With this stereotype, Hollywood is seen as a perfect example of the filmmaking and professionalism, in a way this demeans the Latinos effort in the film.

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He 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 movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

Imagine that one day, all of the Hispanic population just disappeared from the face of the earth, nowhere to be seen or found. The film, “A Day Without a Mexican” had that same plot, where the whole Hispanic population in California disappeared into thin air when a weird and mysterious fog surrounded the state (Artenstein & Arau, 2004). The film may had taken a humorous and satirical approach to the topic of Mexican immigrants and the overall treatment of the whole of the Hispanic population, but every joke that was made in the movie echoed the same problems and concerns that exist in reality. The film addressed many of the stereotypes and racism that surround the Hispanic and Mexican populations. The film also made apparent just how important Mexicans and Hispanics are to all aspects of society. Lastly, the film even attempts to cover what exactly makes someone a Mexican or Hispanic.

Although I do not tend to generalize specific races or types of people, American media often portray immigrants as being a negative thing. However we learned from the film that immigrants bring important values with them from other countries such as maintaining proper health and a strong family. According to the film

The film has several ethnicities within a small area along a time line of one day. The film has many, informative methods in which it describe the various diversity issues of all the characters within the movie. For example, Sal’s pizzeria which is owned by an Italian American has pictures of famous Italian Americans on the wall and plays Italian music. One character named Buggin Out is always upset. Bugging out hates the fact that there are no black people pictures on the wall especially since the pizzeria is in a black neighborhood. His perspective represents the people in the African American community that always protest, but usually don’t work to improve the community. The

There are African Americans, Latino’s, Caucasians, and Persians. This movie has these unalike characters of unalike cultures stumble upon each other during the film. Many of these characters judge the other based on their color,

The Film I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 Documentary that depicts the key events of the 20th Century African American History. This documentary was inspired by James Baldwin’s thirty-page unfinished manuscript. The manuscript was going to be his next project in which he called Remember This House. The manuscript was to be a personal explanation of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Unfortunately, in 1987 James Baldwin passed away leaving the unfinished manuscript to be forgotten, well that is what some thought. Now master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the manuscript James Baldwin never finished. The outcome is a fundamental examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original thoughts and materials to make the project possible. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of Black Lives Matter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. Though this is the main thought of the documentary there are many key features that make this film much so about whiteness in American History and now.

The degree of connection between all of the characters in the movie is so coincidental and interrelated to emphasize the point that we do not always know what is going on with everyone else we may encounter. It also accentuates the fact that racism is not one particular race against another. It also shows that we never know someone’s situation and what is happening in their life to make them act the way that they do if

The whole point of the film is that the illegal immigrants perform jobs that Americans are not willing to do and immigrants are treated as aliens not what they really are human being.

Los Mineros were Mexican/ Mexican American miners in Southeastern Arizona that settled in the sister towns or Clifton and Morenci. The miners came from Mexico excited to learn a new culture and in hope of a better life in their new country. However, the Mexican American immigrants did not expect that they would experience inequality at work and in their everyday lives. Because they were Mexican Americans they were looked down on throughout the town. Upon workers the Mexican Americans were the most desirable workers because they worked for a cheap price. At work the miners were assigned the most dangerous and toughest jobs while being paid far less than an Anglo American was. They faced a lot of discrimination in the towns, which was slowly segregating them from the Anglo Americans. For example, a Mexican/ Mexican American was not allowed in a white Anglo mans home. In the video of Los Mineros we can see when a white Anglo man gets in trouble by the mining company for allowing a Mexican American inside his home. Even though the man argued that he had the right to; the mining company prohibited him from doing so. This shows how much power the mining company had over people. It also shows the influence and impact that they had on

The film is like other race relations content since it shows the unseemliness and foul play of prejudice. It is not at all like other race movies in its introduction of bigotry in a duplicate way. The greater part of the characters in the content, who are of various racial-ethnic foundations can, whenever move toward becoming culprits and casualties of prejudice. Another part in this film that was touching to me is when the little Latino girl jumps in front of her father too used herself as bullet proof for her father is sorrowful but with divine intervention she was alive. There few parts I dislike in this film and they are when Dillon’s police officer publicly sexually assaulting the TV director and his wife for doing what they are not supposedly doing in public while driving,

Prompt 1: Provide examples from the film that relate to differences in working-class and middle-class White Americans and the expectations set for both groups. In particular, show evidence of “primary control” and “secondary control” as seen in the film with these two groups.