"Akeelah and the Bee": Inspirational Story of African-American Intellect and Triumph or Racist Rhetoric Served Up on Another Platter?

Autor/inn/en	Pimentel, Charise; Sawyer, Cathleen
Titel	"Akeelah and the Bee": Inspirational Story of African-American Intellect and Triumph or Racist Rhetoric Served Up on Another Platter?
Quelle	In: Multicultural Perspectives, 13 (2011) 2, S.100-104 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1521-0960
Schlagwörter	African Americans; Discourse Analysis; Films; Spelling; Intelligence; Competition; Race; Stereotypes; Racial Bias + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Diskursanalyse; Film; Schreibweise; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Wettkampf; Rasse; Abstammung; Klischee; Racial discrimination; Rassismus
Abstract	In this article, the authors look into the inspirational movie, "Akeelah and the Bee," a film about an African-American who goes against all odds to achieve success in grand proportions. Described as an "inspirational family film" and a "successful feel-good movie" (Turan, 2006), "Akeelah and the Bee" proved inspirational to many viewers, as it highlighted Akeelah's intellect, tenacity, and determination to ultimately win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. While this movie seems innocent enough, the authors perform a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Huckin, 1995) of this movie to expose what they perceive as numerous racial overtones, undertones, and more particularly, several racist discourses that underpin and permeate the entire storyline to construct African-Americans in terms of deficiencies, abnormalities, and disfunctionalities. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10