{"id":8545,"date":"2004-01-04T22:10:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T22:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8545"},"modified":"2021-09-22T21:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:05:38","slug":"blood-as-a-yardstick-and-a-film-that-falls-short-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/01\/04\/blood-as-a-yardstick-and-a-film-that-falls-short-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katti Gray, writing for Newsday, on “Blood\u00a0as<\/span>\u00a0a Yardstick,\u00a0and<\/span> a Film That Falls Short” (November 11, 2003):<\/p>\n

Forced or consensual, race-mixing is complicated stuff. The miscasting of Anthony Hopkins, a\u00a0white<\/span>\u00a0actor of Welsh birth,\u00a0as<\/span> Coleman Silk in the film version of Philip Roth’s novel, “The Human Stain,” is the lesser criticism of this spotty movie. The fictionalized Silk is fashioned after an actual person who looked\u00a0white<\/span>\u00a0but, by racial convention, was considered\u00a0black<\/span>.\u00a0As<\/span> a college boy, Silk breaks his\u00a0black<\/span> mother’s heart – he is the lightest in the family – when he flatly informs her that he has chosen to navigate life\u00a0as<\/span>\u00a0a\u00a0white<\/span> man. So as<\/span>\u00a0not<\/span>\u00a0to tip off his\u00a0white<\/span> bride-to-be, Silk had already announced to her that his parents were dead. Silk wished to fade into a\u00a0white<\/span> existence that satisfied more than it constrained, he said.<\/p>\n

If one purports to be\u00a0black<\/span> – or has that label foisted upon him – but is light enough to pass for\u00a0white<\/span>, it seems to me that one is precisely that.\u00a0White<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Katti Gray, writing for Newsday, on “Blood\u00a0as\u00a0a Yardstick,\u00a0and a Film That Falls Short” (November 11, 2003): Forced or consensual, race-mixing is complicated stuff. The miscasting of Anthony Hopkins, a\u00a0white\u00a0actor of Welsh birth,\u00a0as Coleman Silk...<\/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":[136],"class_list":["post-8545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-popular-culture-and-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-2dP","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\/8545","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=8545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8546,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions\/8546"}],"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=8545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}