By the standards of the day, Pinky was quite a daring movie. Released in 1949 by 20th Century Fox, it dealt with two related themes: discrimination based on the yardstick of race and racial passing, the phenomenon of fair-skinned African Americans masquerading as whites. Screened recently on the Turner Classic Movies channel, it revolves around […]
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