"Soul Man", "Waiting To Exhale" and "Jerry Maguire"

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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. In terms of film, this concept may apply differently according to the era in which the film was made and whether the film was made by blacks or whites. The issue can be considered in terms of specific films from different periods, using Soul Man from 1986, and Waiting to Exhale from 1995 and made by a black filmmaker and Jerry Maguire made in 1997 by a white filmmaker.
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..."

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