African American Literature (Harmen Alleyne)

Sorry To Bother You  is... a movie. Ending aside, the movie gave me very distinct vibes to two different books we read this semester. The more obvious one was the one Mr. Mitchell alluded to, White Boy Shuffle , which was the same kind of dreamlike experience. Both the works have the comedy elements interspersed with the grim and bleak aspects. However, the book Sorry To Bother You  most reminded me of was Invisible Man , mostly because Cassius Green is basically trying to find his place in things by finding work and looking for success by trying to assimilate himself into white society and "undermine them with yeses". Unfortunately because of the plot, yeses aren't enough to stop the inhuman experiments being preformed on people. Therefore Cassius switches from a meek individual who goes along with what his corporate says to a more violent outlook against WorryFree. The corporate guy (I forgot his name since names in this movie are kinda all over the place) said Cassius ...

Throughout White Boy Shuffle , we see references to several other types of people that are not solely on the Anglo-Saxon American white and the African-American black. I'm going to talk a bit about the two most prominent ones that I have noticed in the book: Jewish and Japanese. Those two have come up several times in the book, and Beatty has a surprising amount of references to aspects of culture and history involving those two groups. I'll start with the Jewish references. Most of these references are in conjunction with WWII era events, with Gunnar talking about WWII Germany with one of his Jewish friends. Although this part of the theory is not super concrete because I don't know a vast amount about Judism and the events surrounding the Jewish people, I think I can say some things generally from what I know about history. Since the Jewish people were often seen as scapegoats for bad times, they were often blamed and persecuted throughout history. Beatty could be tryin...