Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Early in your career you were working on a TV show and pitched an episode about a white family trying to adopt a Black child, and it was rejected. Why did you never pursue adoption as subject matter again?

That was my third show on television. I had written the script and loved it. It was so personal, as you know. And to have the network come back and say, “We’re not shooting this because it’s too controversial”—that was the beginning of the end for me on that show. Imagine writing something that means so much to you, and you’re the only Black writer on this show. Most of my time was spent trying to give agency to the one Black character, and to call out atrocious dialogue and story lines connected to that character—when they decided to write for that character at all. So now I’m going to focus on that character and tell this personal story. Then to have white people tell me that I can’t tell my own story . . . It is traumatizing. That shit hurts. But I have to think that had to have been a part of what pushed me to keep going.

Rebecca Carroll, “Beyond Visible: Gina Prince-Bythewood on the Necessity of Black Women’s Cinema,” The Criterion Collection, October 15, 2021. https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7567-beyond-visible-gina-prince-bythewood-on-the-necessity-of-black-women-s-cinema.

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Hugo Amsellem
Cali, Colombia
2016-02-11

Exploring the challenges of mingling identities with photos & stories of cool people I meet around the streets of the cities that I visit during my year-long travel…

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