My Complicated Relationship with Passing for White

This week I share my experience with the concept of passing for white as I watch the #Netflix film #Passing starring #TessaThompson and #RuthNegga and directed by #RebeccaHall. I share important books and history lessons I've learned as I shape my understanding of racism and the invention of #whiteness in the United States.

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I'm a Black, Jamaican, Cherokee, Blackfeet and Danish playwright, producer, executive producer, actor and development executive working in Hollywood. I spent 7 years traveling across the country presenting my one-woman show One Drop of Love (https://www.onedropoflove.org/) and have worked as a producer and development executive at Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's production company, Pearl Street Films (  / pearlstreet  , for 5 years. I'm also the co-author of the Inclusion Rider, along with Kalpana Kotagal and Color of Change. I'm here to share the lessons I've learned as a BIPOC, Global Majority Member filmmaker, storyteller, playwright and theatre producer.

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INFORMATION FOR THIS VIDEO:
Fatal Invention by Dr. Dorothy Roberts https://thenewpress.com/books/fatal-i...
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-P...
White By Law by Ian Haney López https://nyupress.org/9780814736944/wh...

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