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BUILDING A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY2Building a Multiracial SocietyThe purpose of this essay is to apply the four frames of colorblindness racism as presented by Bonilla –Silva to the social world today. For this paper, I chose the movie crash and media analysis since it brings out race as one of its primary themes. Bonilla-Silva highlights that the views of the whites constitute an ideology as opposed to prejudice. For this reason, the views of the whites ought to be understood in such a way that power relations between the blacks and the whites are maintained in the racial arena. The inner frames of this ideology form the basis for understanding this information. These frames include naturalization, cultural racism, minimization of racism, and abstract liberalism1 .The movie crash highlights the lives of different individuals from different social classes. These people have life-changing experiences between their different stereotypes and prejudices2 . The plot of the crash is made up of a series of interrelated pieces about people of varied socioeconomic groups and ethnicities who interact with one another, mostly in a violent way. The interaction of these characters prompts one to question stereotypes while also acknowledging the truth with which they contain. Since the scenes are all related, with one character in one scene reappearing in another, we can analyze the different sides of a personality.For instance, a character appears to be a racist in one scene is shown undertaking an act of kindness in a different scene. This structure is useful in stressing the interrelationship of human beings while at the same time underscoring the complexities of racism and prejudice. This 1 Bonilla-Silva, E. (2003). New racism,’color-blind racism, and the future of whiteness in America. White out: The continuing significance of racism, 271-84.2 Valdivia, A. N. (1998). Stereotype or transgression?: Rosie Perez in Hollywood film. The Sociological Quarterly, 39(3), 393-408.
BUILDING A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY3chosen film exhibits the four frames of color-blindness of Bonilla-Silva and it has been analyzed below.Abstract liberalism uses ideas such as individual effort, meritocracy, and equal opportunity that are associated with liberalism. It flows down to each having economic as well as political liberalism. Political freedom means that everyone is accorded equal opportunities. This is when the dominant group sees it unfair for the minority group to be given an advantage. The dominant group always believes that the minority groups, for instance, people of color, still have to work harder to attain their goals without receiving any particular kind of treatment3Abstract liberalism is seen in the movie Crash when the racial minorities become targets of racism and prejudice. For the Iranian families, it has become a common phenomenon to be mistreated whenever they go. Although carrying a gun is a right every American citizen enjoys, the shopkeeper questions the intentions of an Iranian man who arrives to buy a gun with his daughter. He is even labeled Osama despite being clean shaven, his only crime being his accent and skin tone.We also come across another black couple, Christine and Cameron, who are drastically disruptedone night despite leading upper-class lives. While returning from an evening out, all dressed in formal attire; they become police prejudice victims. They are stopped by the police and abused, simply for being black. Cameron is taunted and threatened. For Christine, however, because of her gender, becomes a victim on an intense new level. She is not only harassed by the officer, butalso moleste. This couple is, therefore, reduced to ethnic bodies regardless of their education and 3 Bonilla-Silva, E., & Forman, T. A. (2003). It Wasn't Me": How Will Race. Research in political sociology, 12, 111-134.
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