Formulaic ‘Touch of Pink’ is in need of a deeper shade of plot By Wesley Morris, Globe Staff July 23, 2004 Written and directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid, this is […]
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Tag: Popular Culture and Literature
Stereotypes in Dramatic Interpretation
What blacks, whites really think BY MICHAEL KILIAN Chicago Tribune Black people are loud in restaurants, tend toward criminal behavior, have ridiculous names, are promoted beyond their level of competence […]
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Robot Stories
FYI, from Mavin Foundation. —– Forwarded message from Matt Kelley —– Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:54:23 -0700 From: Matt Kelley Reply-To: mavin@yahoogroups.com Subject: [mavin] Interesting indy film by hapa […]
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Uncovering an Interracial Literature of Love . . . and Racism
Uncovering an Interracial Literature of Love . . . and Racism The New York Times April 17, 2004 By EMILY EAKIN The word miscegenation entered America’s bitter racial politics and […]
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Talk Shows and “mixed race”
This is so typical of American talk shows on “mixed race” identity. I’m surprised that any positive role models (the Graham siblings) were invited at all. Why did they invite […]
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Village Voice attack on Dickerson
Blackness as Folly: Debra Dickerson gambles on telling blacks to give up by Thulani Davis The Village Voice A book white folks will like. That’s how some describe The End […]
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Roger Ebert on film casting and “racial” identity
Catch That Kid Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert Corbin Bleu and Max Thieriot, as her two pals, are just plain likable, and the attraction between Bleu and Stewart may be […]
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Film Screening: Robot Stories
From EurasianNation: For those of you in NYC, please join EurasianNation and community organization Swirl, Inc. (www.swirlinc.org) as we go to see Hapa director Greg Pak’s award-winning film “Robot Stories” […]
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‘The L Word’: Novelty in Normalcy
If anyone gets “Showtime,” perhaps you can monitor this show to see how Jennifer Beals’s “white mulatto” character is treated. I don’t like the idea of Ossie Davis playing her […]
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Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short
Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short Newsday November 11, 2003 by Katti Gray Forced or consensual, race-mixing is complicated stuff. The miscasting of Anthony Hopkins, a […]
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