Date of Award
Spring 2013
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of arts (BA)
Department
Global Honors
First Advisor
Cynthia Duncan
Abstract
This thesis will examine how the African diaspora has been depicted in filmic text, from directors representing distinctly different loci of the diaspora, in Brazil, Nigeria and the United States. Film is one of many modes of expression for a culture that is based on representations. “For many people, media representations maybe their first and often only source of information about, or reference for people outside of their social and cultural circles, “(James, etc., 354) The scope of this thesis will specifically examine diasporic representation in The Journey by Chineze Anyaene, a Nigerian director of ‘Nollywood’, Walter Salles’ “City of God” and John Singleton’s “Higher Learning”. Although each of these films can be categorized in different genres, come from different cultural and directorial traditions/styles they each relate in that they depict in some way the blanketed experience of systematic racism that members of the Africa diaspora are often subjected to.
Recommended Citation
Melton, Monica C., "Representations of the African Diaspora in Three Films" (2013). Global Honors Theses. 10.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/gh_theses/10
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, International and Intercultural Communication Commons