Gender Roles In The Movie Crash

In our world stereotyping people based on their race, culture, and social class has become a major issue. According to Sue and colleagues (2016), they define stereotypes as, “preconceptions we hold about all people who are members of a particular group, whether that group is defined along racial, religious, sexual orientation, or other lines” (Sue, M. Rasheed, & J. Rasheed, 2016, p. 234). In the film Crash, we see how the characters all form fixed impressions “stereotypes” of each other regarding their race and their physical appearance. Gender roles are implemented in the film, as the men are characterized as providers, and manly powerful jobs.
In the span of two days the film brings us into the lives of several distinct characters in the city of Los Angeles. This includes a variety of African-American men and women; an African-American detective and his Hispanic female partner; a Persian immigrant and his daughter; a white privileged criminal

This includes the traditional male role of being the provider and protector, while the women are the submissive and is a stay at home wife. The men are the main providers of the home and are characterized as having influential and powerful jobs. This includes men being police officers, attorney, shop owners, locksmith and detectives which represent manly jobs. Also, in one scene, racist police officer John Ryan pulls over an African-American film director named Cameron. As Cameron's wife begins antagonizing the officer upon Cameron's repeated request to stop they are both checked for weapons. The gender roles are obvious as Cameron’s wife perceives him as failing to protect her as John the police officer searches Cameron’s wife in a sexually suggestive way and Cameron does nothing to stop it. Instead humiliates her so people wouldn’t read about it. As the main provider of his household if he lost his job due to the incident, no money would be coming