Watch 8 Mile or Step Up and Bringing Down the House. What do you think changes or does not change when race and African Americans are no longer the focus of a film? How do the films handle this differently? Use the Hip-hop Realness and the White Performer and/or the Performing Blackness reading to inform your analysis. Pick an idea from the readings and compose a thesis that compares/contrasts the two films. Your paper must also include a NEW academic article. Use the two articles are theoretical touchpoints in your paper's analysis.
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