EN 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rodney King, D. W. Griffith, Spike Lee
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Reminders: minority report essay due next week, in class exam april 4th. Malcolm x: last phase features his big second conversion; odd thing for a life and for a book, most autobiographies feature one conversion at most, malcolm x has. 2 huge ones accepting islam as his religion, accepting islam proper as his religion: mecca (cid:272)(cid:396)u(cid:272)ial (cid:272)hapte(cid:396) that la(cid:455)s out (cid:449)hat he"s thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out; lea(cid:448)es. America for the first time, lands in frankfurt and finds people are friendly; ends up in cairo, in the arabic world for the first time, being treated as a celebrity, needs to turn to be accepted as an official. Muslim convert: starts to think about the big changes and the nation of islam, puts it in terms of brotherhood, pg. A(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a (cid:271)ut it"s just a (cid:374)e(cid:449) (cid:449)a(cid:455) of add(cid:396)essi(cid:374)g it, the e(cid:373)(cid:271)(cid:396)a(cid:272)e of. Mohammed; veiled truth ske(cid:449)ed (cid:448)e(cid:396)sio(cid:374) of mal(cid:272)ol(cid:373)"s salvation.
