It's very easy for a mixed-white like the heroine to be part of the general white society. If that's true, then people like the heroine SHOULD marry other whites and not blacks so the children won't be so confused with all those different colors in the family. The grandmother makes up for her "mistake" by saying that she wouldn't do it again and that "interracial" marriage is wrong "because of the children." Yeah, right. Where is he? What happened to him? In "Imitation of Life," the cop-out is that she was married to a man who only "looked white." (If it looks like a white, it's a white!). I was surprised that the grandmother (the ubiquitous "mammy" figure)said that she was "married" to "a white man" (the heroine's grandfather). The relatives who look like her are conveniently absent. The film was consistent with other "anti-passing" films in showing only "Negro" relatives for the heroine in order to imply that she is only a mutation and not a descendants of whites. I was also surprised to find the realistic scenes of sympathetic "pure" whites who advise the heroine that she is, after all, really "white" and would be foolish to call herself a "Negro." Bravo! That stigma has no more ethnic validity than the "Aryan/non-Aryan" idiocy of the Third Reich. This "anti-passing" film has the usual racist message advocating the myth of white racial "purity." I was surprised to find that the heroine was sympathetically portrayed (as opposed to the mixed-white girl in the 1950's "Imitation of Life," for example). To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice.
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