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In Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, language is power

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2018-09-10

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King, Gemma

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Ever since his 1989 film Do the Right Thing opened with Rosie Perez’s boxing-inspired dance to Public Enemy’s Fight the Power, Spike Lee’s cinema has been driven by the tensions between power and race in America. Lee’s mostly black protagonists can only make it in their racist surrounds when they know their own power, and how to use it.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/207374

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The Conversation

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