Student will choose a film, present quotes from each of the colorblind racism, frames, and analyze them accordingly, in a minimum of 6 pages. As his/her critical-thinking decision-making objective, students should decide whether the societal evidence he/she reviews in the paper (a) demonstrates the typical colorblind pattern that Bonilla-Silva describes in the textbook; or (b) reveals a more progressive and/or minority pattern; or (c) some combination of the above; or (d) some other pattern not discussed in the textbook but worth exploring in future research. The student may find that the quotes he/she analyzes deliberately challenge one of the 4 frames of colorblindness in some way, and he/she can note this in the paper as well. Each paper should consider the implications of the analysis of colorblindness for the future of multiracial society. In other words, how do the representations discovered in your analysis help and/or hinder a society’s progress toward inclusive multiracial democracy?
Film selected : A time to kill
if you google “a time to kill” many links will appear to watch the film.
attached is the film selection and outline (just a start off but more can be added or taken away from the final paper).
A Time to Kill
The lawyer, Jake Tyler Brigance: Cultural racism, but he isn’t the offender. He’s fighting against what the judge and other white members of the case believe to be a case where a black man took the law into his own hands because, culturally, black people just do bad things.
Judge Omar Noose & D.A. Rufus Buckley: minimization of racism. Not offering Carl Lee a fair trial “because of his wrong doings” when in reality it was because he was a black man.
Carl Lee: also, cultural racism. During that time, it was somewhat normal for whites to be acquitted for crimes they absolutely committed if the victim was of color. Due to previous cases like the one of Carl’s daughter, he feared that the men who hurt his daughter would be acquitted as well. In turn, he killed the two men.
