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Racism And Racial Stigmas In Thesis

..Genesis 9, Verse 27. At 7 years of age, you get told it enough times, you believe it. You believe the hatred. You live it...you breathe it. You marry it" (Pell, (www.imdb.com).This movie was not a documentary albeit it did follow the plot of a real life civil rights tragedy. But the lines in the film reflect the reality of life in segregated, Jim Crow-dominated Southern towns during that time in our history. In "Dances With Wolves" the protagonist, John Dunbar, who has been banished to a wilderness post because he tried to commit suicide, has a newfound appreciation for Native Americans. In his life and his army career he has been given the propaganda that all native peoples are criminals and low lives....

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"Nothing I have been told about these people is correct," he writes in his diary. "They are not thieves or beggars. They are not the bogeymen they are made out to be...the only word that comes to mind is harmony" (Dunbar, (www.imdb.com).
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Lion's Gate Home Entertainment. "Crash." (2005)

Crash Script. "Dialogue Transcript." Retrieved October 22, 2008, at http://www.script-o-rama.com.

IMDb. "Dances With Wolves." Retrieved October 21, 2008, at http://www.imdb.com.

Ebert, Roger. "Crash." Retrieved October 21 at http://rogerebert.suntimes.com.

IMDb. "Mississippi Burning." Retrieved October 21, 2008, at http://www.imdb.com.

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Works Cited

Lion's Gate Home Entertainment. "Crash." (2005)

Crash Script. "Dialogue Transcript." Retrieved October 22, 2008, at http://www.script-o-rama.com.

IMDb. "Dances With Wolves." Retrieved October 21, 2008, at http://www.imdb.com.

Ebert, Roger. "Crash." Retrieved October 21 at http://rogerebert.suntimes.com.
IMDb. "Mississippi Burning." Retrieved October 21, 2008, at http://www.imdb.com.
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