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I watched John Cassavetes first film Shadows the other day on Criterion. Kind of about this, pretty passing girl whose white boyfriend is shocked upon meeting her brother. Good footage of Times Square in the late 50’s. And all the blacks are super dignified and smart.

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 no sense Well, maybe it makes pelo sense. But it is funny. Imagine Leslie Jones in movie with her character passing for white, and nobody noticing.

Blacks girls are stereotyped as less attractive. That’s it. All other nonwhite women including Asian, Latina, etc? Not so. In fact the narrative that has emerged from decades of facial beauty research and sociological interviews is that white women are considered less attractive than Asian and half-Asian women.

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:

Some Southern states didn’t actually use a one-drop rule for determining race, but I can’t recall the cutoffs they used.

‘…Do you want your presently cute, feminine daughter to have a strong ramrod straight prognathic manjaw? Make sure she gets braces.’

Certainly Othello wasn’t played by an African of any variety. I’ve seen several plays with “race blind casting.” Some of the minority actors give truly good performances, and some leave you with the sense that the director had to fill a quota, or was trying to make a point.

I would guess that being a half white, half Asian female in modern America is going through the game of life on easy mode, but that’s not what high school seemed like to her (or to anybody).

“And that was sort of where it stopped. And when I asked questions to my mother about her background in Detroit and her family,” Hall said, her voice low and firm, “she left it with an ‘I don’t want to dwell on the past.’”

There was zero crypsis going on. In those days it was completely normal for immigrants to want to assimilate as much as possible and adopt American names.

It sounds like her maternal grandfather was a Europhile, and that Maria was his throwback baby who couldn’t pass for non-black. But her grandfather loved his artistic daughter and her mother loved her father and admired him for setting her on a path that led to her marrying the head of the National Theater of the United Kingdom visit this web-site and having a beautiful and cultured daughter.

It certainly requires the actors involved to go all in and be very good so you forget about how they look.

I can foresee a time when English theater is cem% black. Whites are simply being exterminated from the English stage.

Pelo need for white actresses. There are plenty of part black actresses who look unambiguously white. But also, people who passed back then were often still somewhat exotic looking, just not enough that people could easily guess why.