Sorrowful Black Death is Not a Hot Ticket and Seduction and Betrayal Es

Sorrowful sinister Death is Not a calefacient Ticket and seduction and Betrayal Toni Morrison and bell hooks assign the same views on how white America envisions blacks. In bell hooks essays Seduction and Betrayal and Sorrowful Black Death is Not a importunate Ticket she focuses in on the portrayal of African Americans on the cock-a-hoop screen. In Seduction and Betrayal hooks uses Spike Lees Crooklyn to demonstrate how valuable the behavior of a black person is. In Sorrowful Black Death Is Not a Hot Ticket she claims the Bodyguard and The instantaneous Game illustrate the notion that blacks, especially black females, are inferior to whites. In Toni Morrisons introduction to Birth of a Nationhood , she suggests these same views by sounding at the O.J. Simpson case. Through the use of these movies and courtcases, hooks and Morrison suggest that blacks are viewed as worthless, violent criminals, who are subordinate to the white race. hooks believes, The rac ial political relation of Hollywood is such that there can be no unsafe representation of death and dying when the characters are African-Americans (99). By stating this, she implies that black life in movies is thought of as useless. She finds that the majority of black death in movies is done through violence. An example of such a film is genus Paris Trout in which a young girl is brutally murdered and her relatives likewise cowardly to save or avenge her life, ... provideingly show the lawyer who will defend her killer the blood stains left by her dragging body, the punch holes in the walls. Her life is worth nothing( hooks, 100). Not even the girls have family could find worth in her life. Her relatives cared so little that they were willing to play money to show her kil... ...al of black life are the views shared by the majority of Americans. Their views on this portrayal of blacks in America can be summed up in a quote taken from Melvilles Benito Cereno, We will fool what the American...wanted to see the head of the Negro fixed on a pole in the Plaza (27). Works Cited hooks, bell. Seduction and Betrayal. Writing as Re-Vision A Students Anthology. Ed. Beth Alvarado and Barbara Cully. Needham senior high school Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1998. 108-111. hooks, bell. Sorrowful Black Death Is Not a Hot Ticket. Writing as Re-Vision A Students Anthology. Ed. Beth Alvarado and Barbara Cully. Needham Heights Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1998. 99-107. Morrison, Toni. Introduction. Birth of a Nationhood. Ed. Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky Lacour. New York Pantheon Books, 1997. 7-28.