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This is a 5 page paper comparing the films “White Man’s Burden” and “Baby Boy”. “White Man’s Burden” (1995) directed by Desmond Nakano, and “Baby Boy” (2001) directed by John Singleton, are two films which both tell the stories of unemployed lower class individuals who exist and try and live within a racial society. “White Man’s Burden” shows a very class restrictive racial society in which the director has reversed the class distinctions by portraying a time when America is dominated by African Americans in the conservative upper class and the lower class is dominated by poor whites. The main character, Louis Pinnock, loses his job and blames his white boss and seems to be a victim of society and his class. In “Baby Boy” however, which portrays the urban African American society which exists today, the main character, Jody, seems more a victim of his own doing and at first seems disinterested in improving his life style. “Baby Boy” shows the anger of the African Americans and also the violence which can occur but also portrays a more in depth sensitive look at the lower class without providing stark contrasts with the upper class.
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who exist and try and live within a racial society. "White Mans Burden" shows a very class restrictive racial society in which the director has reversed the class distinctions by
portraying a time when America is dominated by African Americans in the conservative upper class and the lower class is dominated by poor whites. The main character, Louis Pinnock, loses
his job and blames his white boss and seems to be a victim of society and his class. In "Baby Boy" however, which portrays the urban African American society which
exists today, the main character, Jody, seems more a victim of his own doing and at first seems disinterested in improving his life style. "Baby Boy" shows the anger of
the African Americans and also the violence which can occur but also portrays a more in depth sensitive look at the lower class without providing stark contrasts with the upper
class. In the film "White Mans Burden", John Travolta plays a white unemployed factory worker during a time when in the United States
where the whites are now the minority and the blacks are dominant in regards to wealth and the upper class. He ends up kidnapping his bigoted boss, played by Harry
Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite to the current culture of modern America and the line from
the movie "Are these people beyond being helped" is uttered not by a conservative white man but by an African American (Tepper, 1996). The film, directed by Desmond Nakano
and released in 1995, was not terribly well received but has now become popular is its interpretation of a reversal of current culture. Travolta plays a worker, Louis Pinnock, from
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