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...real life, believes that blacks could defuse racism with a more positive attitude and are too quick to "play the race card" and "come from a place of self-pity"; he's stubbornly determined to show that, if he gives off a positive vibe, he won't encounter racism. Carmen is the well-meaning daughter of parents who were active in the civil rights movement, but she has had little personal contact with blacks. She refers to one of her daughter's black friends as a "magnificent black creature," and, in a role-play led by the dialogue coach, addresses...
...couple's incognito outings, their suspicions prove justified, as when a white man volunteers that he feels the urge to wash his hands after shaking hands with a black person. But the conflicts between the couples are more ambiguous. After the "black creature" incident, Brian and Renee wonder how Carmen would feel if someone called her a "magnificent white creature." What the Sparkses apparently don't see is that the effusive, dramatic Carmen probably wouldn't be offended. What the Wurgel-Marcotullis apparently don't see is the reason for that: whites have not had a history of racists likening...
...with rapper Ice Cube and Matt Alvarez (both of Barbershop), was to survey the color lines in a country that has largely shed overt racism. For six weeks a black family from Atlanta (Brian and Renee Sparks and their son Nick) and a white family from Santa Monica, Calif. (Carmen Wurgel, Bruno Marcotulli and daughter Rose), went out into society as members of the opposite race and spent their downtime, sans makeup, sharing a house...
...does it mean to "talk white" or "walk black"? (Both families meet with consultants, including a dialect coach.) And can you discuss cultural differences without falling into stereotypes? In the first episode, Brian and Renee point out that a black woman would not ask as many personal questions as Carmen does. "Your nature is to be more curious," Brian tells her. (Imagine a white man observing that black people are "less curious...
...Harvard and IHS together have the capacity to study this problem and to effect positive change.” The partnership will be led at Harvard’s end by the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), an institute in the Kennedy Schoool of Government. Carmen D. Lopez, executive director of HUNAP, and Dennis Norman, the faculty chair of HUNAP’s Native Health Program, said in a conference call yesterday that the partnership is designed “to bring the brainpower of Harvard to benefit Native people.” Leo J. Nolan, a senior policy...