Document Type
Freshman Seminar Essay
Publication Date
1997
Excerpt
The movie Zebrahead, is a fierce attack on American race relations and the way that they are portrayed in film. Zebrahead stands on its own merit as the most penetrating probe of inner-city inter-ethnic strife in the nineteen-nineties. Zack (Jewish) and Dee (Black) are best friends and a rap duo at a Detroit high school. Dee's beautiful cousin Nikki comes from Brooklyn, New York. Zack has no mother, Nikki has no father: together they become perfect emotionally dysfunctional lovers. The rest of the cast of characters argue whether that's right or wrong. Zack admits, ''Technically, I am white," but defends what Nikki calls his being "more on the homeboy side than the white boy side." ''This is Detroit," says Zack, ''this is where I live. You know, I may not live downtown, but this is still a predominantly Black city. This is me, though; this is who I am."
Recommended Citation
Meng, Haoyu, "Zebrahead: Movie Review (1997)" (1997). The Valpo Core Reader. 176.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/176