The last taboo? Does wave of interracial movies signal a real change?

Ebony | September 1, 1991 | Copyright

SINCE the birth of movies and the debut of the race-baiting film, Birth of a Nation, the men who run major Hollywood film studios have frowned on open and honest portrayals of interracial love.

For many years, in fact, it was considered commercially and socially taboo to portray interracial lovers, particularly Black men and White women, in movies. And television, from its infancy, enforced an unwritten code forbidding Black men and White women to touch. So powerful and persuasive was this unwritten law that even the exceptions, such as the blind woman who fell in love with ...

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