Opinion | Elizabeth Leiba: Netflix's 'Passing' explores race in the 1920s — but tells us as much about today. - NBCNewsTHINK
The film challenges viewers to confront uncomfortable truths about how race — with all the nuances attached to it — still appears throughout today's society.founder of the Black History & Culture Academy
The first time I was introduced to Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, “Passing,” I was an undergrad in Florida in the early ’90s. As a Black British woman, raised in South Florida with Jamaican-born parents , I didn’t fit into a neat category of ethnicity.
Today the themes of the movie raise the question of why white people seemingly try to “pass” as Black on purpose. Through the exquisite performance of Ruth Negga, who plays Clare, we see the bordering-on-obsessive behavior of a white-passing woman fixated on the Black community she has abandoned for a guaranteed chance at social mobility. Rather than leave her old life behind for good, Clare develops a compulsive need to revisit her old life, no matter the risk, after a chance meeting with Irene . She becomes less and less satisfied with her assumed identity and life.
Viewers should recognize a nagging conundrum here that has come up all too often today: Many white people understand, compared to their Black counterparts, the privilege they have in America — to be
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