Sidney Poitier
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The Struggle for Nuance in Blackness on Screen
Aram: There's a slight tragedy in there that speaks towards this struggle for nuance in representations of Blackness on screen. I mean, at the time, Poitier and Belafonte in their 50s, such. And you know, there's a younger generation coming through, so there's a natural shift, ideological shift. Could we go to Back to For the Love of Ivy again, Joan? Because this is a film from this moment. If you go and see it, it's so good. It's about a black servant played by Abby Lincoln who gives in her notice to her employers because she wants to go to Secretary of College.
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