REPRESENTAÇÕES DE GÊNERO E RAÇA NO FILME INFILTRADO NA KLAN (2018), DE SPIKE LEE

Abstract

This study aims of discussing the film BlacKkKlansman (2018), directed by Spike Lee. In order to understand the representations of gender and race in the construction of the female characters, Connie Kendrickson and Patrice Dumas. The film addresses racial issues in the context of post-segregation in the United States of America in the 1970s, featuring the protagonist Ron Stallworth, a black police officer who infiltrates the white supremacist organization Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to investigate its members and prevent a succession of attacks on people in the Afro-American community. In this sense, this study seeks to understand in its specific objectives how the characters under analysis, Connie Kendrickson and Patrice Dumas, project representations of gender and race in the context of the civil rights movement in the 1970s. How the supremacist and terrorist organization Ku Klux Klan influenced the gender representations that will shape that society. To achieve these objectives, we dialogue with intersectional feminist criticism, such as Welter (1960), Friedan (1971), Frye (1983), Bento (2022), Collins (2000), and hooks (2015, 2019). To conclude the female characters in question - Connie and Patrice are constructed, respectively, through the ideas of domesticity and self-definition. Such construction is circumscribed, as the study demonstrates, in the context of the struggle (movement) for civil rights in the United States of America during the 1970s and in the intersections of oppression in this context.