In 2018 the Spike Lee film Black Klansman won the Grand Prix (Great Prize) at the Cannes International Film Festival and was nominated for six American Academy Awards (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay). It won for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Based on the memoir of Ron Stallworth (with the same title), the film Black Klansman tells the story of Stallworths undercover infiltrationwith the help and support of fellow police officer Flip Zimmermanof the Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, eventually expanding to conversation with and a visit from KKK Grand Wizard David Duke. What starts out as intelligence gathering of the local KKK chapter expands not only in scope but also in danger and violence, with policemen Ron Stallworth and Flip Zimmerman learning much along the way. And, at the end, with Spike Lees added actual footage of the well-known 2017 Charlottesville car attack that killed Heather Heyer, we too can learn much from Black Klansman.
For your final English 1A essay this semester I want you to write a 4-5-page (1000 1250 words) analysis of what undercover police officers Ron Stallworth and Flip Zimmerman learn in the film. What do they learn about racism (explicit and systemic), about White Supremacy, about policing (including corruption and brutality), and about themselves? What lessons do they and the film Black Klansman teach us?
You should cite at least thing from Ijeoma Oluos So You Want to Talk about Race and the film Black Klansman itself and any two additional resources using MLA In-Text citations. Full publication information about all your sources should be included in your MLA formatted Works Cited list starting on a separate page at the end of your essay
For Essay #5 on Spike Lees film, Black Klansman, use these suggestions to provide the following in-test and Works Cited citations in your essay:
Background information on filmmaker Spike Lee and on the Ku Klux Klan
The terms white supremacy and/or system racism
Something from Ijeoma Oluos So You Want to Talk about Race that will lend support to your thesis or argument
An objection and counterargument answering that objection
A review of the film
These five, together with the film itself, will provide you with at least six sources to cite and to include in the Works Cited list of your essay.
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