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"Do The Right Thing" by Spike Lee
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"Do The Right Thing" by Spike Lee
Analyzes racial themes & messages of 1989 film in context of Bell Hooks' sociopsychological theory of "the Other."
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
2 sources |
1996
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"Race and the divide between the races is either the subject or the subtext in many films. The theory of the creation of "the Other" as delineated by Bell Hooks applies to these works and helps illuminate how they handle the issue of race. Hooks's analysis will serve as the critical perspective to be applied to a film overtly about racial tensions and how they develop, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.Hooks notes how race is used not merely to discriminate against one group or another but to make that group discriminate against itself:
Though systems of domination, imperialism, colonialism, racism, actively coerce black folks to internalize negative perceptions of blackness, to be self-hating, and many of us succumb, blacks who imitate whites..."
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