Undergraduate
Research
Symposium
2023
Ileana Hubert
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Heroin Addiction and Race in Film
The relationship between race and heroin use in films made after 2000 is complex and, at times, offensive. Films like Requiem for a Dream and Things We Lost in the Fire portray people of color in the midst of a severe addiction to heroin. 6 Balloons addresses whiteness in relation to heroin addiction in an entirely different way.