I really enjoyed the way this book was written, it was written in a way that Native Americans have been known to teach each other. They pass their knowledge down to their children through their stories. It was like sitting down with a grandparent and hearing their story of the war. I first picked this book up because the Navaho Indians were mentioned in my AP History class, but because of the time frame we had before the test was taken they were only briefly mentioned. This book grabbed my attention because of the topic and that the main characters point of view didn’t just start with the war it explained his background and why he is the type of person he became.
After watching this movie I took a few minutes to reflect on the story and its main points. As Nate Parkers job as a filmmaker I believe that he wanted portray Nat Turner as a hero that acted with honor and dignity to serve what he believed to be the lord 's purpose. Throughout the whole movie Nat turner can be seen as a right and just slave. Whether it was going from plantation to plantation with his drunken master to preach or serving a group for dinner, he did what he was told no questions asked. The film leads up to the mass murder by showing what Nat Turner experienced and why he lead the revolt.
It shows young African-American musicians being harassed by cops in the movie, Straight out of Compton, which is what they should show. Movies that show the truth get more results, and they get their point across more thoroughly. In Django Unchained, It showed how very cruel the slave trade really was. In 42, it showed how difficult it was for a black man to make it into a major league sport. In the movie The Express, it showed a young African American fighting through racial barriers to be accepted by his teammates and the whole nation in college football.
In this movie, you see the life style on being a slave. Solomon Northup was a free man that was kidnapped and was traded off in the slave trade and endured the life style of a slave. There is a scene in the movie where he is building a house and the white man comes and tells him he is wrong and tells him to rip his clothes off so he can be whipped. Solomon refuse and takes a stand knowing that it is wrong he took a stand for what he though was right. This movie was primarily made to show the harsh conditions that they had to go thought but also an insider some of the slaves that made a stand.
I do agree with the point of view in the film. In today's music, White artist have the advantage over Back artist. I believe this is because we are still discriminating over Black people. For instance, the film talks about how mysteriously
Another part of the film that I found interesting was the sit-in movement. The sit-in movement was started by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Let Freedom Ring) This group of black college students refuse to leave the whites-only lunch counter that denied them service. Jim Crow Laws made it impossible for African Americans to be equals in the South.
Towards the beginning of this movie, many blacks were looking at the white men with hatred for raping and nearly killing a ten year old black girl. The men transformed the innocent little girl’s life forever. The men were instantly
The book challenges Americans and how they treat American Values. The book exposed the truth of the white race and how they treated the black race. Throughout the novel white Americans did not value equality or progress and change. In Black Like Me whites did not believe in having a society the ideally treats everyone equally. When John Howard Griffin gets a ride from a white hunter, he tells him “I’ll tell you how it is here.
During the 1970s, there was an era that America, there was the black panthers and they were very popular for the African American community. This came after the civil rights movement was coming to an end and changing America. It also changed Hollywood as well with it has more African American directors that gave more African American cast and crew members jobs. This also changed the type of movies that were coming out and it created a new genre of film called Blaxploitation and it showed the world how the black communities were seen. With it being a new type of film it has been just an African American version of every type of earlier cinema film that has been out.
I enjoyed the comical and lighthearted dancing and singing approach the characters had to the somber situations around them. Watching this few years later and after taking a Text and Meaning course, I was struck at the sheer amount of things that stood out. The Negroes were declared “other”. In post colonialist theory, declaring one race “other” marginalizes them and stresses on how
The release of the movie started “a serious discussion in the black community over white control of African American imagery in film” (Boyd. 2-7-17) Because of this, many of the early black independent film companies were created. Film companies such as the Foster Photoplay Company, the Fredrick Douglass Corporation, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company and others began releasing films that focused on reviving the black image. “Black manhood” and “middle-class values” were important themes that African American directors focused on during this crucial period. Casting roles for these films was a very important part to the process of creating films that promoted the African-American community and culture. Although there were many black directors creating these films, Oscar Micheaux would become one of the most famous black film directors of the time.
Since Hollywood continues to whitewash their film, it prevents POC actors and actresses from rising above the ladder. In order them to become recognizable and successful they need to be given the chance to actually put their names out there. This way, movie makers have more choices to pick from and can make their movies more diverse. Even if the films are fantasy or fake, realism in some way, still needs to be a factor. To cut out that aspect is not only lazy but damaging.
"I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug", this was the verbal reaction of Malcolm X while experience the film “Gone With the Wind” for the first time in theaters. Truly a one of a kind, this historic film debuted in 1939 and depicted many controversial social issues that were not discussed lightly, nor openly for that matter. Especially not within in the old south during the Civil War, where the setting of this film actually takes place. In this essay I will be discussing three main reasons as to why “Gone with the Wind” is historically significant; its outstanding success, female gender role issues, and racism.
First and for most, learning about all of the wars and battles throughout history was always a huge struggle me. Watching the film really opened my eyes and put things into perspective on the different difficulties the tribes went through. I could clearly understand what the film was about. I am the first to confess that I don't know to much about how the lifestyle was with people who lived in the first decades of the European settlement of North America.
However, are these so-called western films and shows accurately portraying the events of what occurred in the “wild west?” In truth, Hollywood inaccurately exaggerated and romanticized the factual and fundamental truth about what occurred in the Old West for intended money purposes. Clichés such as cowboys, gunslingers, outlaws, and bonds with the Native Americans all made the cut for the western films and shows rather than what the Old West really consisted of. One man, in particular, William Cody, or most commonly known as Buffalo Bill, created Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Shows to give an insight as to what the western life was like. Though his shows were far from the actual truth of what happened in the west, they drew quite an audience.
