Assignment: The Color Purple (Film)
Students will use Media Analysis by selecting a film that has race as a major theme, and will be expected to apply the material covered in class, especially Bonilla-Silva's 4 frames of colorblind racism to their everyday social world. The paper should present quotes that illustrate all 4 frames of colorblindness and analyze them accordingly. Bonilla-Silva outlines the typical colorblind racism patterns, while in Chapter he looks at how progressive racial ideology differs from those, and in Chapter-how racial "minorities" tend to use colorblindness differently than the majority.
As his/her critical-thinking decision-making objective, the student should decide whether the societal evidence he/she reviews in the paper
(a) demonstrates the typical colorblind pattern that Bonilla-Silva ;
(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 a 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?
Create a minimum of 6 pages total as part of their paper.