After reading the past posts that mention realism I can say that I agree and disagree with idea that elements of realism in both "Ethnic Notions" and "Classified X". They both take views at examples of extreme racism through film, advertising, cartoons and historical events that influenced all of them. Certain instances of these in Ethnic Notions are the points of the easily amused laughing sambo shown in some films, the zip-koon, and showing them enjoying serivtude. These are well developed examples of realism showing just how extremely prevelant and widspread the racism was in the early to mid 20th century.
Melvin Van Peebles, though, uses more of a satirical method to explain his points about the racism of Hollywood. He did this by the example of the white person taking center stage when being the only one in a crowd of black people. This isnt the most extreme point he makes but it rather defines a different kind of racism that Ethnic Notions doesnt cover. Therefore I believe that while there are points of realism in "Ethnic Notions", "Classified X" uses more satire than realism to define its point.
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