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''Dear White People'' is a film by Justin Simien. A satire at times, and a drama during others, the film follows four young black students as they try to find their identity while maneuvering through the complex racial politics of [[IvyLeagueForEveryone the prestigious Winchester Academy]]. A housing randomization initiative threatening to gut the Armstrong dorm, currently as a safe haven for racial minorities, causes racial tensions to rise for Sam, Lionel, Coco, and Troy as the Black Student Union tries to fight back, the school paper wants the scoop, and a smooth reality show producer seeks to reap the drama.
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''Dear White People'' is a film by Justin Simien.Creator/JustinSimien. A satire at times, and a drama during others, the film follows four young black students as they try to find their identity while maneuvering through the complex racial politics of [[IvyLeagueForEveryone the prestigious Winchester Academy]]. A housing randomization initiative threatening to gut the Armstrong dorm, currently as a safe haven for racial minorities, causes racial tensions to rise for Sam, Lionel, Coco, and Troy as the Black Student Union tries to fight back, the school paper wants the scoop, and a smooth reality show producer seeks to reap the drama.
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* FreudWasRight: InUniverse. Kurt brings up Pastiche’s motto, metaphorically saying that comedy and criticism should not hold back and hit raw nerves: ‘Sharpen thy sword’. One of the members thinks it’s a euphemism for [[ADateWithRosiePalms something else]].
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* FreudWasRight: InUniverse. Kurt brings up Pastiche’s motto, metaphorically saying that comedy and criticism should not hold back and hit raw nerves: ‘Sharpen thy sword’. One of the members thinks [[SexualEuphemism it’s a euphemism for [[ADateWithRosiePalms something else]].
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: BlackFace parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life, white college students donning BlackFace as part of their (culturally insensitive) costume.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: BlackFace parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life, life white college students donning BlackFace as part of their (culturally insensitive) costume.costume.
* PlayingUpTheStereotype: Sam uses the term "oofta" to describe black people who modulate their blackness around their white friends, dating it back to the Jazz Age when "bojango-types" would "black it up" for white audiences. Troy is depicted as one example -- he's highly academic and fluent, but when hanging out with his white friends at a party, he cracks jokes about being black and [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt his affinity for white women]] so he can make them laugh.
* PlayingUpTheStereotype: Sam uses the term "oofta" to describe black people who modulate their blackness around their white friends, dating it back to the Jazz Age when "bojango-types" would "black it up" for white audiences. Troy is depicted as one example -- he's highly academic and fluent, but when hanging out with his white friends at a party, he cracks jokes about being black and [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt his affinity for white women]] so he can make them laugh.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Simien erased the [[{{Blackface}} Blackface Party]] for being too absurd...only to put it back in when he found out racist parties like that were happening in universities all over the country.
** Before Sam's radio show becomes more aggressive in its stance on race, it does bring up some pretty common complaints that plenty of real-life African Americans have had.
** Simien erased the [[{{Blackface}} Blackface Party]] for being too absurd...only to put it back in when he found out racist parties like that were happening in universities all over the country.
** Before Sam's radio show becomes more aggressive in its stance on race, it does bring up some pretty common complaints that plenty of real-life African Americans have had.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: As noted in the AluminumChristmasTrees entry, BlackFace parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life, white college students donning BlackFace as part of their (culturally insensitive) costume.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: As noted in the AluminumChristmasTrees entry, BlackFace parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life, white college students donning BlackFace as part of their (culturally insensitive) costume.
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* MaleGaze: When Coco wears a dress with AbsoluteCleavage to a party, the camera lingers. It's also subverted in that when she approaches Kurt at the end of the party, the camera frames the back of his head such that the audience cannot tell if he's looking.
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* MaleGaze: When Coco wears a dress with AbsoluteCleavage a NavelDeepNeckline to a party, the camera lingers. It's also subverted in that when she approaches Kurt at the end of the party, the camera frames the back of his head such that the audience cannot tell if he's looking.
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** Gender-inverted and subverted with Coco, a black girl who specifically seeks out white guys to date (she's looking for "the Olivier to [her] Halle Berry). However, [[spoiler:she ends up hooking up with Troy, a black guy, and possibly dating him]].
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** Gender-inverted and subverted with Coco, a black girl who specifically seeks out white guys to date (she's looking for "the Olivier to [her] Halle Berry). However, [[spoiler:she ends up hooking up with Troy, a black guy, and possibly dating him]].guy]].
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* WhereDaWhiteWomanAt:
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* WhereDaWhiteWomanAt: WhereDaWhiteWomenAt:
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* CampGay: All of the gay guys we see except for Lionel. He doesn't identify in their crowd comfortably because of it.
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* CampGay: All of the gay guys we see except for Lionel.Lionel are quite clean-cut and campy. He doesn't identify in their crowd comfortably because of it.
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-->'''Sam''' (on the radio): "Dear white people, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments dating a black guy to piss off your parents is a form of racism]]."
* EverythingIsRacist: Explored as part of the film's examination of race relations.
* EverythingIsRacist: Explored as part of the film's examination of race relations.
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-->'''Sam''' (on the radio): "Dear white people, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments dating a black guy to piss off your parents is a form of racism]].racism."
* EverythingIsRacist:Explored Microaggressions and the extent to which they should be taken seriously are explored as part of the film's examination of race relations.
* EverythingIsRacist:
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Sam and Gabe start off this way. Sam is in denial that it is blossoming into romance.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Sam and Gabe start off this way. sleeping together casually. Sam is in denial that it is blossoming into romance.romance.
-->'''Gabe''': ''[pensively]'' What are we doing?\\
'''Sam''': ''[looking out the window]'' Fucking.
-->'''Gabe''': ''[pensively]'' What are we doing?\\
'''Sam''': ''[looking out the window]'' Fucking.
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* InternalizedCategorism: A major theme of the film is how several of the black students repress their identity or try to distance themselves from it due to their primarily-white environment. Lionel notes that his worst favorite part of high school was the other black kids due to associating them with homophobic behavior, and Coco seeks out the company of white people and only plays up her black identity when it can potentially snag her some attention -- and even then, she shows signs of insecurity, such as insisting she isn't ''that'' dark-skinned. Even Sam, the most outspoken advocate for black people on campus, is revealed to be insecure about her mixed-race identity.
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* WhereDaWhiteWomanAt:
** Gender-inverted and subverted with Coco, a black girl who specifically seeks out white guys to date (she's looking for "the Olivier to [her] Halle Berry). However, [[spoiler:she ends up hooking up with Troy, a black guy, and possibly dating him]].
** When Kurt and his gang call out black guys for dating all the white girls, including Troy and his white (ex-)girlfriend Sofia, Troy jokes that it's a form of reparations -- "Forty white bitches and a mule!"
** Gender-inverted and subverted with Coco, a black girl who specifically seeks out white guys to date (she's looking for "the Olivier to [her] Halle Berry). However, [[spoiler:she ends up hooking up with Troy, a black guy, and possibly dating him]].
** When Kurt and his gang call out black guys for dating all the white girls, including Troy and his white (ex-)girlfriend Sofia, Troy jokes that it's a form of reparations -- "Forty white bitches and a mule!"
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* TakeThat: When Sam leads a cadre of her friends to a movie theater to protest the lack of quality films targeted toward African-Americans, they call out Creator/TylerPerry's films as essentially being minstrel shows draped in Christian dogma.
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* ImportantHaircut: Sam and Lionel. Lionel finally cuts his hair down, signifying [[spoiler: his newfound confidence in approaching the members of the BSU]]. At the same time Sam lets her down, signifying that she now won't spend the bulk of her time trying to force an outward appearance of "blackness" and instead [[spoiler: prioritizes who she is over what everyone sees her for]].
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* ImportantHaircut: Sam and Lionel. Lionel finally cuts his hair down, signifying [[spoiler: his newfound confidence in approaching the members of the BSU]]. At the same time Sam lets her hers down, signifying that she now won't spend the bulk of her time trying to force an outward appearance of "blackness" and instead [[spoiler: prioritizes who she is over what everyone sees her for]].
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* ShoutOut: In the series, Coco attempts to join the black sorority Alpha Delta Rho, which is the same sorority that Whitley joined in ''Series/ADifferentWorld''.
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-->'''Sam''' (on the radio): "Dear white people, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny dating a black guy to piss off your parents is a form of racism]]."
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-->'''Sam''' (on the radio): "Dear white people, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments dating a black guy to piss off your parents is a form of racism]]."
