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Be A Man If You Can: Examining Pre-Migration And Post-Watts Revolt Identities Of Black Working-Class Men In The Films Of Charles Burnett, 1969-1990, Donte L. Mcfadden
Be A Man If You Can: Examining Pre-Migration And Post-Watts Revolt Identities Of Black Working-Class Men In The Films Of Charles Burnett, 1969-1990, Donte L. Mcfadden
Theses and Dissertations
The films of Charles Burnett from 1969 through 1990 focus on the presentation of black working-class men in South Los Angeles as the decline of industrial jobs alters the socioeconomic landscape. Two periods that are important to understand the historical reference of Burnett's films are the Second Great Migration, in which African Americans evacuate the oppressive climate of Jim Crow to live in Los Angeles during World War II, and the Watts Revolt, a week in August in which residents of the Watts region revolted against law enforcement and business owners in response to the treatment of two African American …