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Hall had no way of naming her intuition that these gaps in her family history were narratively charged — but reading it was a “gut punch.” “I felt deeply challenged and confused,” Hall recalled. …Most people’s interest in “passed for white” movies began and ends with Claudette Colbert in Imitation of Life some 90 years ago, skipping the lavish remake by Ross Hunter later on.
Michael asks, Was your dad a G.I.? “G.I.” is a nickname for a United States soldier. Michael observes Karen’s apparent mixed ethnicity and implies that Karen’s father served in an exotic location and fathered a child with a local woman.
The problem with casting obviously black women in roles where they are supposed to be able to pass as white is that the movie makes pelo sense:
There are definitely plenty of lower profile aspiring actresses who would fit, but I guess a movie needs some star power.
That’s just sexual competition, not dislike of race mixing as such. They’re fine with it when it’s the other way around.
For example, if we were Muscovites, and this were November 1941 instead of 2021, perhaps being ‘obsessed’ by the impending German threat would be a good idea rather than a mental pathology.
The biracial daughter is constantly being sent from white school to white school, because her black mother keeps inadvertently blowing her cover. When she and her mother (who is partnered with a white heiress in a business that makes them all very rich).
The show never explains her full Discover More ethnicity but makes a joke out of her ambiguous features by suggesting she’s mixed:
Weird old white dog breeders thought they would be the last ones affected by negro dysfunction, but it has found its way into just about all ways of life. Expect to see news stories about brawls at Amish barn raisings pretty soon.
Karen’s ethnicity is deliberately made ambiguous and turned into a sort of running joke. The Italian ancestry implied by her last name is confirmed in “The Merger.
” Identifying as both often feels like identifying as neither. (It can also mean identifying as either: but we’ll talk about transraciality another day.) Growing up biracial means quickly learning that the language we have for these identities is insufficient.
“I used to get called Paki and Coon and Nigger,” she says, talking about her days as a mixed-race child growing up in a white working-class village.
That’s an interesting link, thanks. But populations that are on average heavily African (the mixed Creoles or the Dominicans) and the populations which are are only a small percentage African .are apples and oranges when it comes to this.