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...awed and inspired Americans of all backgrounds,” Counter said. Dee, who starred opposite Sidney Poitier in the 1961 film, “A Raisin in the Sun,” has been known throughout her acting career for portraying characters on stage and screen that countered racial stereotypes. Along with her late-husband Ossie Davis, Dee is known for her work in civil rights. After accepting the award, Dee delivered the annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture. “Something comes to mind as I stand here. I’m thinking of myself in elementary...
...tell you about Pedro Infante? If you're a Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who he is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos. If your racial and cultural ethnicity is Other, then it's about time you learned about the most famous of Mexican singers and actors." -Denise Chavéz, from her 2002 novel Loving Pedro Infante...
...female will be too aggressive for him, like the smoldering, man-eating Katy Jurado in The Seminarian: "Are you retarded? Or are you afraid of me?" she asks as she brazenly removes her shawl. A more troubling blind spot in the Infante character: he keeps falling in love with racial snobs. In The Woman I Lost he becomes a fugitive for having protected Silvia Pinal's honor, only to find that she disdains the half-breed beauty who has saved his life. (She is played by Blanca Estela Pavón, Infante's love interest in six of his late...
...Pretty amazing, huh? But the story isn't the strangest thing about Angelitos Negros. The casting is. Except for Monterrey, all the actors playing African or mixed-race characters were white. The movie is a parable of race hatred and racial understanding, done in blackface. As such, and because it is played with such ferocious conviction, the film is a not-to-be-missed one-of-a-kind...
...economical phrase. When the radio shock jock described the Rutgers women's basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...