Readings for February 24th:

For this week, your assignment is to watch Do The Right Thing (1989) on Amazon.com or to take it out from the Rosenthal library.  Please think about the film in relation to the readings below.

• (It has come to my attention that certain pages in this reading are difficult to see because of the copying. This version should be clearer.) Ella Shohat-Ethnicities in Relation Clearest

• Polyphony and Do the Right thing-Victoria Johnson
• Do the Right thing-Mosaic city

PROMPT:

Who are the people in Spike’s neighborhood?  How and why do relations devolve there (pay careful attention to how the visual aesthetics and music mark this decline)?  And (the question Michelle and Barack discussed after seeing Do The Right Thing on their first date) why does Mookie throw the garbage can?