| Author Name: | Larkin, Alile Sharon |
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| Date: | 2003, Spring-Summer |
| Journal: | Black Camera |
| Volume: | vol. 18, no.1 |
| Topic: | Race and Film |
| Pages: | 3-4, 15 |
The author discusses "cinematic genocide," the continuing phenomenon in American movies that keeps men and women of color apart on the screen. The author also reinforces the connections between institutional racism and sexism. The author describes black male characters depicted as being in love with white women, white men and women falling in love on television, problematic gender relations between black men and women in television and film, and the lack of characters of color in animated films. The author shows that the black male comedian is the only exception, because he poses no threat to the white male patriarchy. The author collects "colored love stories" and describes a need to "match the black love songs that so often are appropriated in white film".