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 of Blackness, Debra Dickerson’s...
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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 the screen’s first example...
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” on its opening day!...
‘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 father, since he is...
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 white actor of Welsh...
Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short
Katti Gray, writing for Newsday, on “Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short” (November 11, 2003): Forced or consensual, race-mixing is complicated stuff. The miscasting of Anthony Hopkins, a white actor of Welsh birth, as Coleman Silk...
“Pinky” Dies
The biggest fight we face is the fact that the elites who claim to be AGAINST racism are promoting the “light-skinned black” oxymoron. “Pinky” was not an attack on racism but a confirmation of...