This study reinterprets the film Green Book through the lens of intersectional positionality and explores its potential for educational applications. The two protagonists, Don and Tony, occupy multifaceted social coordinates—as an "upper-class Black...
This study reinterprets the film Green Book through the lens of intersectional positionality and explores its potential for educational applications. The two protagonists, Don and Tony, occupy multifaceted social coordinates—as an "upper-class Black queer man" and a "working-class White immigrant man," respectively—demonstrating the fluidity of identity as it shifts between the enjoyment of privilege and structural alienation depending on the specific context. Tony recognizes through witnessing the discrimination faced by Don that his own daily liberties were in fact White male privileges, while Don reflects on his elite isolation upon discovering the class-based hardships of Tony. This epistemic shift leads to an "intersectional translation," wherein their asymmetric powers are converted into resources to fill each other's deficiencies, embodying the process through which isolated subjects form an affective solidarity.
Furthermore, this paper proposes an educational model that structures the process of perceptual change into stages of "Witnessing and Rupture" and "Translation and Reconstruction." Through activities such as the "Of Course! Game" and "Positionality Mapping," learners perceive that their daily lives are privileges not afforded to everyone and experience how their own positional advantages and disadvantages can be reshaped by context. This opens up the possibility of horizontal solidarity by transforming one’s own advantages into resources for translation that dismantle the barriers faced by others. The cultivation of such intersectional awareness will serve as a driving force for alleviating hate among minority groups and restoring the ethics of coexistence. It is expected that the educational initiatives proposed in this study will expand the scope of intersectionality education utilizing diverse cultural content and serve as a foundation for broadening the horizon of mutual understanding in Korean society, where social conflicts are intensifying.