Examining Racial Relations in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing”

Examining Racial Relations in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing”

The essay will put the ideas presented in Appiah’s “Racial Identities” and Pratt’s “Arts of the Contact Zone” in conversation with each other through Spike Lee’s film “Do the Right Thing.” The essay will majorly focus on the theme of social and racial relations, particular scenes and characters as presented in the film while incorporating the ideas of the two authors. However, before embarking on the discussion, a better understanding of the storyline of the film is important. Racial identities among the minority and dominant races have resulted to Autoethnography and transculturation,…