D'Angelo Barksdale Essays

The Wire is a show about the Baltimore drug game, told through the lense of law enforcement, drug dealers, drug users, and the people of Baltimore. Sexism, racism, patriarchy, and heteronormativity are all seen within the show, but the two concepts that the show seems to centers around most are the concepts of Marxism and Hegemonic masculinity. Marxism is defined as the “dictatorship of the proletariat”(Merriam-Webster) which essentially means the control of the laboring class by those who have

The Wire A former journalist at the Baltimore Sun and the author of Homicide: Life on the Street and The Corner David Simon created a post 9/11 movie called The Wire. This movie is filmed between 2002-2008 with the late 80’s and 90’s vibe, set in Baltimore, Maryland gives the viewers the perspective of the inner-city drug scene. The Wire does not necessarily examine the connection of race, poverty, and disability, but it does examine the neglect of poor and black people with disabilities (Perry

wiretap the unit is able to find out where the stash house is located. They take the trash from the trash house and find drugs and other illegal items. Orlando is a gang member who owns the strip club and is caught by police for selling drugs. The Barksdale police unit uses Orlando to arrest some of the drug dealers. Kima goes along with Orlando as his girlfriend. Instead Orlando has a hit out for him, which ends up getting him killed and Kima severely wounded. In the chapter of Social Inequality

The second episode of The Wire is about continuing the investigation on Avon Barksdale and the drug ring that the gang is involved in. Major Daniels and the rest of his unit still have not seen Avon Barksdale. McNulty goes to Judge Phelan again about the case and almost gets himself in trouble. D’Angelo was brought in again but was saved by his lawyer. Chapter 2 from the book Social Inequality, Forms, Causes, and Consequences by Charles Hurst is all about the class system in America. It discusses

In this episode of The Wire Omar wants revenge for the death of his boyfriend and starts killing Avon Barksdale’s people. Omar was going to go against Avon Barksdale in court but now the police won’t be able to use him in court. D’Angelo is starting to second guess being in the gang. When he was at a party he found a dead girl while his other friends acted like it wasn’t a big deal. Then his friends started getting shot because of Omar. McNutly was able to get a license plate number off a car the