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Love it or hate it, the major motion picture Crash is discussed as a tool to teach a sociological perspective of racism. Using multiple examples from the film, the paper focuses on seeing the sociological in personal practices of everyday life. Similarly, analyzing individual experiences and expressions of racism for institutional contexts provides insights into systemic inequalities and thus, allows us the ability to analyze solutions to them. The author argues that using the film provides an opportunity to expose institutional racism if read with a sociological imagination. Moreover, the paper suggests that it is imperative to see, and to teach our students to see, institutional racism not as something out there beyond the everyday interpersonal interactions of everyday life, but as represented in the micro interactions of daily life.
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Kunkel, C.A. (2014). Lessons from Crash . In: Haltinner, K. (eds) Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7101-7_20
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