Art Of A World Movie Analysis

1) Introduction: set the scene and state your thesis: What is your main argument? Preview your two-three main points. Your analysis should deal with key issues of the course (power, identity, culture)? [1-2 paragraphs]

Many cultures believe that there shouldn’t be intermixing of races. However, A video from Art of a World, a France production, showed an interaction with a black woman and a white man, who actually started taking a liking for each other; breaking the norms for several countries and states. This film showed binaries; the obvious binaries where race and gender, but the least obvious were how singles interact with each other versus being a couple. Besides the binaries, both the woman and man were exploring each other and figuring

In George Lipsitz reading on Possessive Investments in Whiteness File, he discusses the problems of white America. Lipsitz begins by discussing how whiteness is very hard to acknowledge because it is everywhere. It is something that is embedded systemically, for instance, we notice if a minority walks into a classroom full of white students, we start to question what their story is. But, if a white student walks into a classroom with a bunch of other white students, we don’t ask questions. However, there is a problem because visibly we see, who have more of an access to education and who don’t. We all see this in my text of the White male and the black female on the train. The white male notices the black woman on the train but doesn't recognize his own whiteness. This white man is able to sit where he wants and is able to hate who he wants. But, for the black woman, she doesn’t have that privilege to feel uncomfortable like this white man does or even be able to hate him without repercussion. Lipsitz would analysis this has white

The binaries of a black woman and a white man relationship and how they interact. It was interesting to also see how they interacted, assuming them being single, and seeing a couple interact. It showed the black woman and white man bringing their communities together. However analyzing the two binaries relationship through Lipsitz's article and my connotation, we have a full understanding of the text in a cultural view. We were able to understand the transferring of power between a woman, who happens to be black, and a man, who happens to be white. As well as understanding the struggles of hegemonic masculinity that the white man was experiencing, and the positionality the black woman was facing. Finally, we understood how the stereotype of the characters challenges the normativity of society by power