John Singleton's Movie: Boyz N The Hood

Shakur provides many reasons as to why youths partake in delinquent acts, the pressures, the accessibility, and the lack of positive role models in these young lives. Race and religion play huge factors as well as to why Shakur’s life steered the way it did, transitioning to Muslim once incarcerated helped Kody become Shakur and turn his life around. The ultimate advantage this autobiography has is that it’s written by Kody Scott himself providing a primary credible source giving direct experiences within his life, whereas most books are written from a second or third source and third point of view. Consuming the first few chapters was racial oppression and poverty, and they are focuses of why Kody made the decisions he did, and Shakur gave the impression that violence was a major method of combating racial oppression. As mentioned in the readings by Stretesky and Polegrin on gangs and gun violence, power contributes to a profound amount of crime, where power, respect, reputation, and wealth are the ultimate factors to

Many white people are said to view minorities through their stereotypes (Macionis). It is also said that stereotyping is particularly harmful to minorities in the workplace (Macionis). This can be related to the police force and how their workplace can use stereotypes to pursue blacks for crimes they did not commit. Taub quotes Professor Rios who states, “When identification with a group is coupled with perceptions of threat, that’s a particularly dangerous combination... that’s when you start to see a lot of biases, and a lot of negative feelings” (Taub).

John Singleton is a phenomenal film director who is also known for the critically acclaimed movie Boyz N the Hood; I was surprised to find that this outstanding director is also from the same background as the characters in his films; he grew up in South Central Los Angeles. How he got introduced to the film is that in his teens every day he volunteered as a Gofer for USC film school, eventually, they allow him to attend as a student, there he studied to be a director. So he watches and experience and grew up around the areas of South Central Los Angeles, enough to reflect the same images in his films exactly how it is in South Central Los Angeles. Another significant film Singleton directed was a film called “Baby Boy” which tells about a

He found friends and began to blossom and this is where his journey began. Growing up cedric has always been around unwanted circumstances. Such as the thugs, gangbangers and anyone that was typically a threat or the opposite of what Cedric’s mother wanted him to be. Making it clear that, “Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he put in the same category as doing drugs.” (18).

Although not very evident throughout the film, discrimination plays a huge role in the movie “La Bamba”. The type of discrimination we see in the movie consist of; prejudices against Hispanics and stereo types. Richie is of Mexican descent and although he does not speak Spanish, people many times assumed that he does because of his appearance. An example of this is when Bob speaks to Richie in Spanish when they first meet (44:04). Here, we encounter a type of stereotype that all Latinos don’t know English.

Stereotyping is an issue that affects all ages, genders, and races. Not all stereotypes are bad, but when you maliciously stereotype it becomes a problem. In S.E. Hinton’s young adult novel The Outsiders, stereotyping is a significant issue. There are two gangs in this novel, the “greasers”, and the “Socs”. The greasers live on the east side and are known as “hoods”.

In Deering’s cartoon, found in the Arkansas newspaper for which he works, two white citizens are shown pointing at a police officer who is dressed in highly protective gear. Along with the image is the caption, “’Oh…that’s the officer who specializes in building a trusting relationship with the community’” (citation?). This caption shows Deering mocking the role of police in society, yet his cartoon is still far less controversial because of the race of the men shown. Nevertheless, the idea of an uneasy feeling around police is depicted, though the cartoon ignores the struggle of the injustice faced by African Americans when dealing with the

This unfortunate stereotype is still highly prevalent today. We all read about African-American men committing crimes, we see it in the news and on social media. That goes to say, not all crimes are committed solely by black men, and black men should not be treated like criminals based off of others wrongdoings. Staples recounts the events of a night he went for a walk. On this walk, he encountered a well-dressed white woman (as he so described) who instinctively mistook him for a criminal.

Americans Stereotypes: Loosening stereotypes Americans are always scared when they see a black man and think about them trying to harm them. Actually, that isn’t always the case and isn’t the case a lot of the time. Brent Staples in his writing Black Men in Public Spaces shows some of the societies stereotype issues. Americans should stop stereotyping blacks, not purposely go around them at night, and he shouldn’t have to whistle to make people comfortable around him. Americans put stereotypes on different ethnicities.

American Journal of Political Science. Hurwitz and Peffley write on how stereotypes about African Americans have an effect on people’s attitudes towards crime and policy. The authors discuss the link on race and crime and how the media has a lot to do with it. This work will be helpful to my research because of the stereotype linking blacks to crime. It will support my thesis on how race is spread throughout

According to Marxist philosophy, the characters are going against the values of the bourgeois as throughout the film, the audience observes working-class young male and females in Kidulthood participating in underage sex, drugs usage, and other criminal offences against the middle-class. According to Greg Philo, contemporary ‘hoodie cinema’ reflects middle-class anxiety about the threat to their dominance posed by the working-class (gang culture), and therefore Kidulthood’s representation of the working-class reinforces the social hegemonic views of

What are the varying explanations of men’s involvement in criminal activity? Savian Campbell University of Trinidad and Tobago CRIM2004 Gender and Crime Abstract This research paper is intended to analyse the various explanations for men’s involvement in criminal activity using a gendered approach. It looks at the masculinity of crime and seeks to answer the burning question that has been ignored for years (what is it about men that causes them to commit crime?) The notion of masculinity and the typical characteristics which are associated with it are discussed and a linkage between masculinity and crime is made.

Whether a playful refusal or an active embodiment of violent discourse, the affirmation that violence “es prity” unmasks the aesthetic bling and spectacle of violence that the ghetto film genre exploits. The sequence flies in the face of formulaic narratives like “The World’s Most Dangerous Gang,” in which remorseful gang members confess their sins and beg forgiveness for their transgressions. In this exchange and throughout the film, viewers receive no definitive explanations of urban violence. Something about the “real” always defies

When dealing with different crimes, people of color are reflected in the demarcation of “them” and “us”. Whites are often represented as the “good guys”, or the strong, law obeying citizens. Meanwhile They often target people of color, sometimes without any sort of evidence at all. Writers and directors use racial stereotypes to make a more complex story with more

The world is a dark and terrifying place. Under the mask of wealth and prosperous growth, there lies the poor, those who live in poverty and fear for their family’s financial standing. Buried under the glamour of Hollywood, the fame of international stars is the ghetto, a place that holds deeper meaning than a slang used to address “gangsters” or “hoodrats”. No one lives here by choice. The residents of these areas are minorities that are forced to live here by the government due to their lack of money.