Looking back, I’d say that she was more obviously part-Asian than Naomi Osaka, who of course wasn’t a public figure at the time.
“The Cassavetes character was notable for its hint of homosexuality, which was uncommon for the time.â€
And to the extent that there’s enough black ancestry to where a “black†child is born of two “white†parents which happens occasionally in South Africa, New Orleans and other areas of the South, and Cuba and so forth, it will affect that analysis, in the sense that if Junior clearly looks different, despite acing the paternity test, his parents will themselves thereby be seen in a different light, so to speak.
But when the point if the story is about race, rejection, acceptance and deception, casting people who cannot pass just makes everything crazy. I do not know how many people will have the patience to deal with a movie that fights against its own reason for being.
I remember my parents earnestly debating getting me braces after my mouth responded to a retainer by simply slowly pulling the wires out of the retainer.
Fun Thriller fact: Toto members were half the main studio musicians on the album. Maybe the worst rock band ever where the musicians were virtual virtuosos.
‘There is something utterly wrong with people who are obsessed with their racial heritage, as if it is something that completely defines them.
Except for Rachel Dolezal of recent fame, the reality was that biracial women (and more sometimes men) if they were able to, it was to their advantage to pass for being a white woman, and many tried to pass.
The show never explains her full 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.
I remember before Michael Jackson passed (*rimshot*) Quincy said the most annoying question he always got asked was “are you ever going to do another album with Michael Jackson?
As this novel was actually written in the late ’20’s, the timeframe similar to passing, it does show an interesting firsthand slice of life between the two races set in NY.
Sort of current day and germane to the conversation is ‘The Earth Abidesâ€. It is a post apocalypse plague novel. One of the characters is a woman who is passing. The protagonist hooks up with her and recognizes that she is passing by the quick of her nails.
I’ve encountered people in the South who pretty definitely had a dollop of the old tar barrel, but thought of themselves as white — and therefore were white.