By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:10:00 +0000

I also remember this documentary and think it is a very interesting representation of race relations. It became a safe (but meant for public) space for these people of different races to come together and say what they wanted to say about their own experiences and their interactions with other people. If I remember correctly, the film focused primarily on the structural forms of racism more so than overt expressions of racism. They brought up some forms of overt instances, but mainly they talked about how the system of America is discriminatory towards people of color, and that the way it is embedded into our society makes it so most people don’t even realize racism exists. While overt expression of racism by “bigots” has decreased over the years, structural discrimination has not; and people are still oblivious to its existence. Thus, I think that if this video was recreated, the results would be similar. People like them would be having the same conversation because this type of racism is still extremely prevalent and the same people experience it in the same ways that they did in 1994.

By: liz

liz — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:35:31 +0000

I also remember watching this video and I agree that it is a great example of all the concepts we have been talking about in class. One interesting thing would be to re-create the study that was done for this movie, since it was done a long time ago. Do you think that the same problems would be addressed in the same way? In our past reading on modern racism and aversive racism I want to suggest that the issues would still be the same but maybe the way in which they addressed them would be more carfully worded, due to aversive racism.

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