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Dear White People

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Dear White People	comment	Dear White People is a film by Justin Simien. A satire at times, and a drama during others, the film follows four young black students as they try to find their identity while maneuvering through the complex racial politics of the prestigious Winchester Academy. A housing randomization initiative threatening to gut the Armstrong dorm, currently as a safe haven for racial minorities, causes racial tensions to rise for Sam, Lionel, Coco, and Troy as the Black Student Union tries to fight back, the school paper wants the scoop, and a smooth reality show producer seeks to reap the drama.A Netflix series based on the film was released April 28th, 2017.
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Dear White People / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Dear White People / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Troy structures his life around his father's approval. He's still not free of it by the end of the film.
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Dear White People / int_17dbe19a	type	Internalized Categorism
Dear White People / int_17dbe19a	comment	Internalized Categorism: A major theme of the film is how several of the black students repress their identity or try to distance themselves from it due to their primarily-white environment. Lionel notes that his worst favorite part of high school was the other black kids due to associating them with homophobic behavior, and Coco seeks out the company of white people and only plays up her black identity when it can potentially snag her some attention — and even then, she shows signs of insecurity, such as insisting she isn't that dark-skinned. Even Sam, the most outspoken advocate for black people on campus, is revealed to be insecure about her mixed-race identity.
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Dear White People / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Dear White People / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Kurt's Blackface Party invitations backfire after the party is cancelled when Sam forces them out anyway in order to create a confrontation and bring the university's racial issues into the national news.
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Dear White People / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Dear White People / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Sam's handheld camera. She is seen using it in the prologue to film a news recording, and again for her film class. She eventually takes it to the blackface party to record the chaos, using the footage to make her final project for the film class and get national coverage on the school's racism.
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Dear White People / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Dear White People / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Lionel and the Black Student Union, after he takes the reigns during Sam's brief departure.
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Dear White People / int_278bd1bf	type	Playing Up the Stereotype
Dear White People / int_278bd1bf	comment	Playing Up the Stereotype: Sam uses the term "oofta" to describe black people who modulate their blackness around their white friends, dating it back to the Jazz Age when "bojango-types" would "black it up" for white audiences. Troy is depicted as one example — he's highly academic and fluent, but when hanging out with his white friends at a party, he cracks jokes about being black and his affinity for white women so he can make them laugh.
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Dear White People / int_2dcb1d2e	type	Black Gal on White Guy Drama
Dear White People / int_2dcb1d2e	comment	Black Gal on White Guy Drama: Sam and Gabe. Initially Sam is in denial that they are falling in love, because of her guilt at not dating a black man. She gets over this in a beautiful moment at the end of the film, when she and Gabe hold hands crossing the bridge, taking no notice of the stares from her BSU friends.
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Dear White People / int_341b1691	type	"Take That!" Kiss
Dear White People / int_341b1691	comment	"Take That!" Kiss: Lionel delivers a long and hard one to Kurt on the mouth to humiliate him in front of his friends.
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Dear White People / int_351205d2	type	Friends with Benefits
Dear White People / int_351205d2	comment	Friends with Benefits: Sam and Gabe start off sleeping together casually. Sam is in denial that it is blossoming into romance.
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Dear White People / int_38958f33	type	Black and Nerdy
Dear White People / int_38958f33	comment	Black and Nerdy: Sam and Lionel show shades of this, but the film implies Lionel's geekiness is yet another reason people ostracize him. Troy deliberately hides this.
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Dear White People / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Dear White People / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Sam, in the final act. After overhearing the cancellation of the Blackface party Sam forces the invites out anyway, but that's all, banking on the members of Pastiche and their guests to do the rest.
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Dear White People / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Dear White People / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Sam and Lionel. Lionel finally cuts his hair down, signifying his newfound confidence in approaching the members of the BSU. At the same time Sam lets hers down, signifying that she now won't spend the bulk of her time trying to force an outward appearance of "blackness" and instead prioritizes who she is over what everyone sees her for.
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Dear White People / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Dear White People / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Lionel, during his second time at the Blackface Party.
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Dear White People / int_6849cc47	type	Where da White Women At?
Dear White People / int_6849cc47	comment	Where da White Women At?: Gender-inverted and subverted with Coco, a black girl who specifically seeks out white guys to date (she's looking for "the Olivier to [her] Halle Berry). However, she ends up hooking up with Troy, a black guy. When Kurt and his gang call out black guys for dating all the white girls, including Troy and his white (ex-)girlfriend Sofia, Troy jokes that it's a form of reparations — "Forty white bitches and a mule!"
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Dear White People / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
Dear White People / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Every character in the film is either working for or attending Winchester Academy at some capacity. The level of ambition most of the characters display makes it pretty clear that Winchester is at the same level of prestige as an Ivy League School.
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Dear White People / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Dear White People / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: All of the gay guys we see except for Lionel are quite clean-cut and campy. He doesn't identify in their crowd comfortably because of it.
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Dear White People / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Dear White People / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Black Face parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life white college students donning Black Face as part of their (culturally insensitive) costume.
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Dear White People / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Dear White People / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Kurt is a jerkass who frequently and proudly makes racist and homophobic statements.
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Dear White People / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Dear White People / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Invoked by Troy: "You guys get country clubs. We get to say nigga."
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Dear White People / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Dear White People / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The film begins with the main characters individually watching reacting to news reports of the riot which breaks out at the Blackface party at the end of the film, complete with a Title Card that reads "Prologue."
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Dear White People / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Dear White People / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: An early scene has the young gay black man Lionel sitting on the college campus observing two different groups: tough-looking black guys and limp-wristed gay guys, neither of whom he feels he identifies with. It more or less sums up exactly what the movie is about.
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Dear White People / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
Dear White People / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: Troy's father, the Dean, brushes him off when he tries to inform him of the escalating situation on campus.
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Dear White People / int_a03509ce	type	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With
Dear White People / int_a03509ce	comment	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: Kurt tries this on Sam when she kicks his gang out of the house. She says she does know, and it makes no difference.
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Dear White People / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Dear White People / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Kurt assaults Lionel in front of witnesses, but isn't expelled or prosecuted (the fact that his father is the university president helps with the latter, but the former is left unexplained).
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Dear White People / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Dear White People / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Programming, or rather the aptitude at which the character can use it. Sam's friend Reggie boasts of his skill at hacking early on during the BSU meeting. Later Sam is called into the Dean of Students office to discuss a problem with the app that took the votes for the election. She won... then kept winning.
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Dear White People / int_af8a9084	type	Black Is Bigger in Bed
Dear White People / int_af8a9084	comment	Black Is Bigger in Bed: Sophia invokes this with Troy, somewhat to his chagrin.
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Dear White People / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Dear White People / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: When Sam leads a cadre of her friends to a movie theater to protest the lack of quality films targeted toward African-Americans, they call out Tyler Perry's films as essentially being minstrel shows draped in Christian dogma.
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Dear White People / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Dear White People / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: President Fletcher's line about racism being over in America; the only people bothered by it being Mexicans.
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Dear White People / int_b9a22821	type	Jive Turkey
Dear White People / int_b9a22821	comment	Jive Turkey: Mitch is constantly trying to embody black stereotypes, and looking ridiculous doing it.
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Dear White People / int_c56b5de7	type	Mis-blamed
Dear White People / int_c56b5de7	comment	Misblamed: Sam and the BSU voice their discontent with the American film industry's treatment of black characters, with Tyler Perry being named in particular as producing offensive movies. But rather than a producer or a writer, they complain to the poor man behind the ticket booth at a local movie theater
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Dear White People / int_c59d9a4b	type	Half-Breed Discrimination
Dear White People / int_c59d9a4b	comment	Half-Breed Discrimination: A source of angst for Sam, who is black but has a white father. She is committed to black activism but is in a relationship with Gabe, a white guy.
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Dear White People / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
Dear White People / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: Sofia is implied to be dating Troy for this reason. Unintentionally lampshaded by Sam almost immediately after the couple is introduced:
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Dear White People / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Dear White People / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: When Coco wears a dress with a Navel-Deep Neckline to a party, the camera lingers. It's also subverted in that when she approaches Kurt at the end of the party, the camera frames the back of his head such that the audience cannot tell if he's looking.
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Dear White People / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Dear White People / int_e796ce97	comment	Blackface: The film's climax is oriented around a Blackface-themed party, where students dress up in offensive stereotypes and exhume their wildest racist fantasies. This gets Played for Drama.
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Dear White People / int_eb24d076	type	Freud Was Right
Dear White People / int_eb24d076	comment	Freud Was Right: In-Universe. Kurt brings up Pastiche’s motto, metaphorically saying that comedy and criticism should not hold back and hit raw nerves: ‘Sharpen thy sword’. One of the members thinks it’s a euphemism for something else.
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Dear White People / int_eb6912	type	Pretty Fly for a White Guy
Dear White People / int_eb6912	comment	Pretty Fly for a White Guy: One of the major themes of the movies (if not the major theme) is white people who are obsessed with emulating black stereotypes while having no respect for actual black people.
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Dear White People / int_fab3b838	type	Everything Is Racist
Dear White People / int_fab3b838	comment	Everything Is Racist: Microaggressions and the extent to which they should be taken seriously are explored as part of the film's examination of race relations.
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