Precious

Race Card: Ishmael Reed on “Precious”

Movies post by Nadra Kareem Nittle on February 6, 2010 - 2:21pm; tagged black film, Ishmael Reed, New York Times, Precious, race card.

If you’ve yet to read Ishamel Reed’s editorial "Fade to White" in the New York Times about Precious, get to it post-haste! In the piece, Reed makes some excellent points about portrayals of black men in popular culture and why the film has received such a favorable reception from whites but been met with resistance in the black community.

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