Director:
Tony Kaye
Writer:
David McKenna
Racism and ethnic
discrimination in the United States has
been a major issue since the colonial era.
Forms of Racism in USA:
ü Racism against African
Americans
ü Discrimination
and racism against Asian Americans
ü Discrimination
against Latin Americans
ü Racism
against Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans
ü Racism against Iranian Americans
ü Antisemitism
ü Anti-European
immigrant ethnic discrimination
ü Racism
and discrimination against European Americans
ü Black
– White Racism
America is country of different
races, religion and people with different colours. By colour it basically means
“Black or white”.’American History X’ is a story of ‘Derek’ who is a white skin
American who ruthlessly kills two black gang members. The movie is about the
after effects of the killing by Derek and the sequence of events in jail which
change the perspective of ‘Derek’ towards black people. Derek’s younger brother
is shown to be very much influenced by his elder brother’s brave act of
killings and so tries to follow his ideologies.
Time has changed and
so has ‘America’. 2008 saw the emergence of a new African American leader in
the form of ‘Barack Obama’ who holds the seat of the president even till date.
But still ‘ Racism’ has not got completely abolished of the US land.
Critics mostly praised
the film and Edward Norton's performance, which earned him an Academy Award
nomination for Best Actor.
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