Reference Photographs Do the Right Thing / Antz

Precedent #1

Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing”!

Racial charged Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, implications of gentification fuel a already explosive situation.

Cultural Identity

Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as he or she is influenced by her belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity is similar to and has overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, identity politics.

Gentrification

the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents

Notation

Thesis Subject: Gentrification and the Cultural Identity of urban communities
Realm on Topic: Animation & Live Video
Story Premise: Main character (unknown character type) gives their interpretation of how gentrification affected hip-hop roots!