Why White?
I am White Like You, Right Mom?
April 20, 2021 鈥 六合彩波色表鈥檚 Mourning the Creation of Racial Categories (MCRC) Project will present two new films at the 2021 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, the largest arts festival in Ohio. The films are part of the primary lineup and are available on-demand from June 4 to 19. The Cincinnati Fringe Festival presents over 200 performances of over 40 theatre productions each year.
Guided by Sociology Professors Joan Ferrante and Lynnissa Hillman, the Project partners with visual, creative and performing artists to open conversations around social unrest and racial disparities. MCRC鈥檚 new films, 鈥淲hy White鈥 and 鈥淚 am White Like You, Right Mom?鈥 tell the stories of how the Black and White Racial Categories came to be.
鈥淥ur country has never explored the emotional story of how the racial categories we check on application forms came to be,鈥 said Dr. Ferrante. 鈥淎s a country, we can never really address racial tensions until we know how and why the racial categories that define us all were made. Our new films provide insights that allow people to see race in new ways. New ways of seeing spark new feelings about race, interest, hope and ultimately change.鈥
About the films:
Why White?
This film opens with a patient, who appears white, struggling to declare 鈥淲hite鈥 as his race on a medical form. He asks, 鈥渨hy do my doctors need to know my race?鈥 and 鈥渨hy am I called 鈥淲hite鈥 anyway?鈥 which begins an exploration of how the labels 鈥淲hite鈥 and 鈥淏lack鈥 came to be and opens the conversation of how White carries the weight of race.
I am White Like You, Right Mom?
In this film, a white-appearing mother must explain to her black-appearing daughter that 鈥測ou鈥檙e not white exactly.鈥 The conversation expands and reveals the story of why, in the U.S., parent and child can be labeled as different races and how race invades the family space.
The ongoing project began in November 2016 and has created five films featuring stories of how racial categories were born. Earlier this year, MCRC collaborated with 六合彩波色表鈥檚 School of the Arts to present an exhibition on the emotional force of race. MCRC鈥檚 2017 documentary has been featured at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and streams on the KET-PBS website. In 2019, the project performed its production 鈥淟et Our Loss Be Heard鈥 in the Aronoff Center for the Arts.
The MCRC Project draws artistic talent from 六合彩波色表 School of the Arts, Creative Writing Program and the surrounding community. Visit MCRC鈥檚 for more information on the project and its two films at the Fringe Festival.
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