Relationship Between Race and Place on Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
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Released in 1989, Do the Right Thing is a film by writer, producer, and director Spike Lee. The film focuses on the lives of a few racially diverse individuals who live and work in a lower class. It depicts how the moral decisions, race, and class of some people can impact the way they interact with each other. Throughout the movie, the main characters not only point out the differences in their class and race but also display varying ideas of Marxism. According to W. J. T. Mitchell, Marxism is an advanced method of analyzing the level of socioeconomic violence. “If violence is simply an accident that happens to public art, it is one that is always waiting to happen” (p. 886). The same idea has been presented in Do the Right Thing impressively and engagingly.
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