Black Power: Gender, Race, and Resistance

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Throughout history, it is evident how people continuously degrade others based on skin color, ethnicity, and gender. Most think that one is superior to the other, which permits them to perform inhumane actions toward inferior beings. This paper focuses on the structures of identity, ethnicity, class, and otherness manifested in the 1966 film by Sembene’s “Black Power” and Marsha Landry’s “Politics and Style in Black Girl.”
The film highlights the negative impact of racism and colonialism in Africans exposed to the Europeans CITATION Zwo66 \l 1033 (Sembene, 1966). The mask given by Diouana to her master is a symbol of peace and unity to the Africans. However, it is but a piece of souvenir hanging solitarily on the white wall of a French couple’s apartment to the westerns. The mask represents Diouana and her loneliness surrounded by the discriminatory white people.
Because of the unsympathetic situation of Diouana due to her masters’ exploitation of her overall well-being, she succumbed to d...