Sidney Poitier
Arts & Ideas
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For Love of Ivy
For Love of Ivy functions on so many enticing levels for me, just visually, aesthetically. There's something about assessing the psychology of not race, but reinterrogating whiteness and turning the lens back. It really happens in this picture, doesn't it? Because of how those white middle-class characters are basically coupled. And again, it plays with this idea of black exceptionalism.
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