American culture studies

Although it’s the twenty-first century, as a nation we are still recreating the past in the present. In films such as “Birth of a Nation” African Americans are seen as insignificant figures. The white culture tends to look at African Americans as inferior. Their traditional roles in films were that of slaves and nothing more. Now they are still portrayed as inferior just in more present terms such as drug dealers, gang bangers, or savage beast like characters. In “Hollywood Shuffle” it demonstrates how African Americans were inferior to their white counterparts. In the film the white woman that is the director demeans all African Americans by saying she needed a black actor that could act “more black” or be an “Eddie Murphy type”, saying all African Americans are all the same. Once Mr. Taylor gets his acting job against his grandmother’s wishes the woman directs Mr.Taylor to “stick his ass out more” just another “black” characteristic.

Mr.Taylor’s...