This film clearly portrays the mistreatment of African Americans, and its shows a huge divide between Caucasians and African American’s, the Caucasians thought of being superior and African American’s thought to be inferior, the context of this movie gives you some insight on the cultural perspective of African American’s, it lets you see the traditions and customs and also, borrowed customs, the need for African American’s to wear wigs and straight hair to be more presentable to their white owners and the white owners learning about the African American’s way of cooking, adopting African American recipes. It is relevant because the tradition and customs used in the 1900’s are still used today. What we went through in the past still affects us today as a whole, we are still somewhat portrayed as inferior to the white man and although we strive to be equal there are still a lot of
This film clearly portrays the mistreatment of African Americans, and its shows a huge divide between Caucasians and African American’s, the Caucasians thought of being superior and African American’s thought to be inferior, the context of this movie gives you some insight on the cultural perspective of African American’s, it lets you see the traditions and customs and also, borrowed customs, the need for African American’s to wear wigs and straight hair to be more presentable to their white owners and the white owners learning about the African American’s way of cooking, adopting African American recipes. It is relevant because the tradition and customs used in the 1900’s are still used today. What we went through in the past still affects us today as a whole, we are still somewhat portrayed as inferior to the white man and although we strive to be equal there are still a lot of