AMERICAN HISTORY X - Is Race Real? (Film Analysis)
The Black Lives Matter movement made me think about the film American History X, the 1998 film directed by Tony Kaye, and starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong. Specifically, it made me think about the concept of race, where racism came from, and how the film relates to both explicit and systemic racism in the world today. In this film analysis/video essay, we use American History X as a way to think about what we know (and don't know) about race, and what authors and scientists say about the effects of race on science and public sentiment.
The ideas presented in this video are a mix of my own personal opinion as well as both scientific and non-scientific literature. As this can be a complex issue, the arguments for and against the theories presented are not covered in depth, and I have oversimplified where I saw fit. The 1972 paper by Richard Lewontin and the arguments against his paper are linked below.
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U.K. Black Lives Matter protesters call for defunding British police, CBS News, Available at • U.K. Black Lives Matter protesters call fo...
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How Can We Win, David Jones Media, Available at • How Can We Win
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A Raw Scene as Ferguson Turns Violent | The New York Times, Available at • A Raw Scene as Ferguson Turns Violent | Th...
Edward Norton On What Current ‘American History X’ Would Look Like | PeopleTV | Entertainment Weekly, Available at • Edward Norton On What Current ‘American Hi...
Ijeoma Oluo: Why We Need to Talk About Race, The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR, Available at • Ijeoma Oluo: Why We Need to Talk About Race
The Concept of Race with Richard Lewontin, University of California Television (UCTV), Available at • The Concept of Race with Richard Lewontin
Lewontin (and Dobzhansky) on Ideology, C, B, Taken from: http://authors.library.caltech.edu/54..., Available at • Lewontin (and Dobzhansky) on Ideology
Lewontin R.C. (1972) The Apportionment of Human Diversity. In: Dobzhansky T., Hecht M.K., Steere W.C. (eds) Evolutionary Biology. Springer, New York, NY, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-90...
Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy, Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_G...
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