{"id":5148,"date":"2004-01-04T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2021-06-14T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:01:00","slug":"blood-as-a-yardstick-and-a-film-that-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/01\/04\/blood-as-a-yardstick-and-a-film-that-falls-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/news\/ny-p2bottom23533852nov11,0,802717.column\">Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short<\/a><br \/>\nNewsday<br \/>\nNovember 11, 2003<br \/>\nby Katti Gray<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forced or consensual, race-mixing is complicated stuff. The miscasting of Anthony Hopkins, a white actor of Welsh birth, as Coleman Silk in the film version of Philip Roth&#8217;s novel, &#8220;The Human Stain,&#8221; is the lesser criticism of this spotty movie. The fictionalized Silk is fashioned after an actual person who looked white but, by racial convention, was considered black. As a college boy, Silk breaks his black mother&#8217;s heart &#8211; he is the lightest in the family &#8211; when he flatly informs her that he has chosen to navigate life as a white man. So as not to tip off his white bride-to-be, Silk had already announced to her that his parents were dead. Silk wished to fade into a white existence that satisfied more than it constrained, he said.<\/p>\n<p>If one purports to be black &#8211; or has that label foisted upon him &#8211; but is light enough to pass for white, it seems to me that one is precisely that.  White.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[121,136],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial","tag-popular-culture-and-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1l2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7365,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions\/7365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}