Higher Days

If we take a look at these movies School Dazes and Higher Learning it is clear to see that message that Singleton and Lee is one in the same Both from afrocentric perspectives of what it means to white. School daze was more focused on the interaction between light skinned blacks and their need for conformity because of their skin tone. It reflects the way many blacks have felt for generations of being oppressed. School dazes also took a look a the roll sexisms play in the black community as well.

Higher learning focused more the difference between black and white, poor and rich privileged and non privileged. It put on displays the ways of the game, how it should be play by people of color. Higher learning takes a deep look at the rolls of race relations from all perspectives of a higher education institution. It shows how all people of color are pawned off and used for for the advancement of whites.

Both films have universal messages that are being conveyed to the viewers. The message is that colored people have It bad because they are always going to inferior to any white person. the second message is that all people of color have it bad, not just blacks, but blacks are a little worse off than most because the all the negative images that have been portrayed in the media to pull blacks down. The third message is that in order to prosper in this society one must be able to try and fit into the system of privilege because that is what is tough to subliminally from in you were born in the pass two centuries black, light skinned or dark.

School dazes showed the light complexioned black as being whiter than the rest of the colored students on the campus. It showed the Phi Gamma Phi as a privilege group of males on campus that