How ‘Passing’ Upends a Problematic Hollywood History
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The 19 50 Nineh Version of Imitation of Life
Soyawa: There's one passing movie that i absolutely love, and that's the 19 50 nineh version of imitation of life. The tragedy isn't necessarily like this light skinne black person is found out, or the tragedy isn't that a white person found out that this light skinned black person has been lying to them. Menan crying overthis movi works soyawa, why do you think this works? I think that this movi does a really good job of showing ly what happens when somebody passes," Soyawa said.
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