Category Archives: Race
The Duff
(A while ago Angelica shared this link to info about the CBS movie, The Duff. It seems like a light mainstream teen movie that might be a good pop cultural of some of the ideas and themes we’ve been talking … Continue reading
Your Bluest Eye
(Glendy shared this article with me. “This Laser Will Change Your Eye Color” by Alexandra Perron in Yahoo Beauty)
1930s Film History
For a nice timeline, check out this site: http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html (pic below from http://www.filmsite.org/tarz.html)
1967 was just the beginning of the Black Power Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxS3cNyKo00 So one of the things that is hard for me about The Outsiders is the curious absence of Native Americans and Black people, when in the 1960s, there were serious movements by both of these groups of people who … Continue reading
“The Outsiders and How It Pertains to Race”
The title alone suggests a striking distinction between what is considered acceptable versus what is not. Just as blacks and other minority groups have been classified as “other,” on the basis of physical features and their cultural practices, so are … Continue reading
Outsider Quotes-Race
“Maybe the two different worlds we live in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.”-Chapter 3 page 35 “Well I won’t. But I gotta do something. It seems like there’s gotta be someplace without greasers or Socs, with just … Continue reading
Unfairness, Quote Post
“Big-time Socs, all right,” I said, a nervous bitterness growing inside me. It wasn’t fair for the Socs to have everything. We were as good as they were; it wasn’t our fault we were greasers…. I felt the tension growing … Continue reading
Race quote:
“Greasers can’t walk alone too much or they’ll get jumped, or someone will come by and scream ‘Greaser!’ at them.” Chapter 1, Page 2