Course Paper – Students will choose a film from the pre-approved list provided in the module (or another title with instructor approval) and will be expected to apply the material covered in class to their everyday social world.
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 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 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?
The paper should give a brief synopsis of the film with the bulk of the paper devoted to an analysis of the film bypresenting direct quotes and scenes from the film that illustrate and analyze the following:
1. all 4 frames of colorblindness
2. 3 of the 5 fallacies
3. a minimum of 2 storylines
4. 2 testimonies
5. 2 rhetorical/semantic moves.
The paper should be a minimum of 6 pages (not including the Cover Page or Reference Page and in proper APA or MLA style – #12 Times New Roman, 1” margins on all sides.
SOC-110 Film List
A Time to Kill
American History X
Black and White
Crash
Dear White People
District 9
Django Unchained
Do the Right Thing
Freedom Writers
Fruitvale Station
Get on the Bus
Get Out
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Higher Learning
Imitation of Life
In the Heat of the Night
Jungle Fever
McFarland USA
Mississippi Burning
Monster’s Ball
Mooz-Lum
Remember the Titans
The Butler
The Great Debaters
The Help
The Visitor
To Kill a Mockingbird
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