Movie "Crash" and an illustration of the 4 frames of colorblind racism

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A 6 page paper about the Movie "Crash" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/). The paper should present quotes that illustrate Bonilla-Silva's 4 frames of colorblindness and analyze them accordingly. MLA format. "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; 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?"

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ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE ‘CRASH’
It should be noted that the movie ‘Crash’ has been generating a lot of positive reviews as
much as it has been receiving criticism. It is a movie that seems to have been a personal effort by
the creators of the movie to talk about the issues of racism and the divisions in the society; the
movie just ends up subscribing to the very stereotypes that it is supposed to distinguish.
However, it should be noted that the movie has won accolades for its efforts to try and create a
society that upholds the values that should not be debated but have been at the core of the
society, especially racism.

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The opening scene of the movie starts by mentioning that ‘It's the sense of touch. .we
miss . . . So much that we crash into each other so that we can feel something’. It is a statement
that brings one of the major inclinations about human nature, that they are prone to the sense of
touch. The focus on having an understanding of the sense of ‘touch’ is to show how all human
beings, despite the differences that are evident because of race or gender, they all yearn for a feel
of their humanity, and the divisions that exist are just peripheral and cannot supersede the human
need to be felt and be part of the society. The implication is that the movie should be seen as
trying to explore these aspects, the divisions that are just a human creation, yet they do not match
the strength and the need for human beings to co-exist together.
It would also be imperative to introduce the four frames that have been discussed by
Bonilla-Silva’s book, and how they are perpetuated in the movie. One of the four frames is the
naturalization of the racism. It is a phenomenon that allows the whites to view racism as a natural
process, and thus they are not to blame. According to Bonilla, he explains this concept as ‘a
frame that allows whites to explain away racial phenomena by suggesting they are natural
occurrences for...


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