American History X, Morrison's Song of Solomon, and the psychological intersections of race, class, and place in contemporary America.(Critical Essay)

From: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

If racism is learned, can it, be unlearned? What environmental factors, such as class status and geographical place, contribute tad the individual's racist tendencies? These are two Kaye's questions relevant to a cooperative analysis of director Tony Kaye's 1998 film American History X and Toni Morrison's 1977 novel Song of Solomon, as both texts' protagonists, Derek Vinyard (played by Edward Norton) and Milkman Dead, respectively, must confront the socially-deterministic values of family and urbanity in their quest to understand and eventually overcome their conditioned ...

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