8 Mile & Persistence Of Racism

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...as a problem that is long solved. Conservative Republicans pontificate that there is no longer a need for affirmative action programs. White adolescents, and others, appropriate black dress, slang, and music. However, voices that are not part of the white mainstream see things from a different perspective, a perspective in which issues of race, class and power in the United States are very much alive. Rather than racism, and the inherent power struggle that has always been its complement, being dead, people of color assert that racism is interwoven into the fabric of American society by culture and history. An examination of a recently popular film, 8 Mile starring the white rapper known as Eminem, illustrates this point.
Eminem plays "Rabbit," a "white-trash" adolescent growing up in a trailer park who imbibes black inner-city culture its "mannerism, codes of conduct, lingo and, of course, its music" (Grundmann, 2003, p. 32). Rabbit is pictured as a master of "free-styling," which is the art of impromptu...

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