The film produced in 1987, Ethnic Notions directed by Marlon Riggs portrays many social issues that America have before the Civil War and throughout the Civil Rights Movements. The film showcases different social issues such as sexuality, appearances, and servility that many African American faced...
In the film “Ethnic Notions” and “Birth of a Nation” racism is clearly present. Both films show the depiction of blacks in the eyes of white Americans. The film “Birth of a Nation” showed the Ku Klux Klan’s hatred for all African Americans, while “Ethnic...
Ethnic Notions argues that African Americans were portrayed on television and in theater acts in the most convenient way to those in power. This is shown when slavery was in full bloom and the majority of America was for slavery; African Americans were portrayed as...
