Passing on Netflix

[Anonymous]

The Color of Water has nothing to do with passing. The author knew his mother was white and raised Jewish. She converted to Christianity and married his AA father. She was always clearly white, raised Jewish, and married to his AA father. The book has zero themes of passing. No one assumed she was AA. Had she been assumed to be AA, there would be no book.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I saw it. I found it hard to believe Tessa would pass for white. It took me out of the movie for that reason.

I too would like to read more about people who m successfully “passed” as white.

Paula Patton or Rashida Jones would have been more believable in the role.

Apparently, that was the entire point. People see what they want to see. White people see what they want to see. They wanted to see the main character as a white women. Tessa only passed with her hat low in the restaurant.

That's why many black people who passed pretended to hate other black people. They new that they could see that they were black.

There was a really interesting story about a Jewish woman who thought she was white her entire life. Turns out that her mother had an affair with a black guy. Her parents just told her that one of her grandparents was from Italy so her skin was more olive. As soon as she went to college and met black people, they immediately told her she was black. It's a crazy story, but a true one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will take a look. Loved the book The Vanishing Half. Twin sisters, one passes and the other does not. Just a gorgeous book.

I loved dis too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Towards the end of her life and when her career had ended, the actress Carol Channing disclosed that she was black. She was always cast as a white woman on stage and in films so assume she was passing as white most of her life. Her father was described as multiracial, African American and Euro American. His mother, Channing's grandmother, was African American. Channing's mother told her when she left to attend college that her father was half African American and the grandmother was African American. Her mother did not want Channing to be surprised if she gave birth to a black child. I assume she meant the coloring of the child would give away that he/she was black. Channing publicly revealed her African American ancestry in the early 2000s.

I knew this subconsciously. I see that now. Channing reminds me of Maria Ewing, they have the same facial expressions.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10389841/Biracial-American-opera-singer-Maria-Ewing-dies-aged-71.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any theories as to the end of this movie? Did Rene tip off Clare’s husband about the party? And did Rene push Clare off the balcony? So much was left up to the viewer to decide. My feeling is yes, on both counts. She knew Clare was a threat to her marriage so she did what needed to be done.

The movie was very true to the book but it’s clearer in it that Irene pushed her. And Irene consciously chose not to worn Clare her husband had seen her and figured out she wasn’t white.