It's not hard to find anymore. It's on Amazon and on demand. I met the
filmmaker at Sundance and helped get him more aggressively online. He
owns online distribution to his film but IMage Entertainment owns the
DVD.
Daryle Lockhart
On Feb 1, 2010, at 10:23 PM, "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote:
Its hard to find but pretty good. It doesn't get played much because
it is a little harsh towards white folks.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net
> wrote:
No, never seen it. Was it any good?
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From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 1, 2010 8:48:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Alba Making Effort to Embrace Latina
Heritage
Ever see the movie Chameleon Street? It was about a black man that
impersonated different people to make more money. I think that it
was mostly out of a misguided sense of black rage. Very interesting
movie.
here is more info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101561/
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net
> wrote:
yeah, it's a complicated thing, alright. I sometimes thank God that
I can in no way, no how, pass as anything but black, and have
therefore never faced the fear/temptation of doing so.
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From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 1, 2010 5:30:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Alba Making Effort to Embrace Latina
Heritage
In California it is quite common to meet people of Mexican and or
Central and South American heritage that do not know how to speak
Spanish. It always bothered me that they would deny that part of
themselves in order to "pass" as white. They see all of the benefits
that passing brings and quickly push down that part of themselves if
they have anglo features. One friend of mine calls it the "banana
effect." Brown on the outside, white on the inside.
Its one of those topics that doesn't get discussed very often
especially on a large scale.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net
> wrote:
I guess that's the blessing and curse of living in a heterogeneous
society: it's easy, perhaps even expected, to succeed without having
to hold on to all aspects of one's cultural heritage. I went to
school with a lot of Mexicans back in Texas, and many of them
couldn't speak Spanish. (Typically at that time it was those who
tried very hard to assimilate, only dating white people,
mispronouncing their Spanish names with Anglicized
pronounciations). Some even denied they were Mexican when asked. I
can recall friends of both genders dealing with parents who insisted
they not speak Spanish, and who pushed them toward marrying whites--
or at the least, light-skinned Mexicans who also had left that part
of their heritage behind. There was a clear schism between those
Mexicans who embraced their heritage, and those who didn't, whom
their fellows derided as trying to "be white".
Whether they were or not, it's always made me a little sad at people
who can no longer speak the language of their ancestors, or who know
little about their non-white, non-American heritage when those
things are there for the taking. I guess as a black man whose link
to much of my history is severed, I've always had a feeling of "How
could you *not* embrace your heritage?" I can recall many times in
high school and college when whites would have long discussions
about their ancestry, tracing their family lines back to England,
Scotland, Ireland, etc. I used to hate when they'd turn to me for my
genealogy. Far as I could get was Louisiana, and mutter some
vagueness about the general part of West Africa that was my likely
origin. How, i've always wondered, can people who have such wealth
of knowledge right in front of them *not* pursue it?
I guess some cynics will say Alba's only doing this for monetary
gain: so she can access a new stream of movies and stuff, the same
way some feel Jennifer Lopez started embracing her Latina heritage
fully once Latin music became popular and lucrative in the States.
(Some said the same about Racque Welch exploring her Latin roots in
recent years). Hopefully she just genuinely wants to explore a part
of her makeup that's heretofore been neglected.
Maybe she can give Tiger Woods a call. :)
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http://blog.taragana.com/e/2010/01/30/alba-gets-serious-about-spanish-85683/
JESSICA ALBA is taking Spanish lessons, so she can sign up for Latin
movies and feel more confident when talking about her Mexican
heritage.
The actress admits she confused a lot of journalists when she first
became a star - because she looked Latino but couldn’t speak the lan
guage.
Her lack of Spanish led to criticism and suggestions she wasn’t a tr
ue Latina - something that really upset the Fantastic Four star.
She tells Siempre Mujer magazine, “I didn’t want to misrepresent
Latinos and I didn’t know how to defend myself. But I went to my roo
m and I cried all night. Since then, I’ve preferred not to comment o
n the subject.
“I tried to explain to them that, in this country (America), I’m
considered Latina and, thus, I consider myself Latina as well. I gre
w up eating enchiladas… I identify with Mexicans. It’s in my
blood whether or not I speak Spanish.”
And now she’s a mum, she has decided to sign up for Spanish lessons,
so she and her daughter Honor can become fluent.
She adds, “I know the basics, but I just hired a professor that spec
ialises in Hispanic studies to teach me and Honor. God knows that I
wish I was raised bilingual. But it wasn’t to be.
“I want to make movies in Spanish… There are so many interesting
themes and stories that are worth sharing, like the lives of immigra
nts, for example.
“There’s a whole world that hasn’t been sufficiently explored
and I want to be part of it - the violence on the Mexican borders, t
he political upheaval in Venezuela and Bolivia and the drug traffick
ing in Colombia.”
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