{"id":24351,"date":"2012-07-15T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T16:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24351"},"modified":"2022-02-26T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T16:31:41","slug":"fostering-mixed-race-children-in-ukraine-family-portrait-in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24351","title":{"rendered":"Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: \u2018Family Portrait in Black and White\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/13\/movies\/family-portrait-in-black-and-white.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: \u2018Family Portrait in Black and White\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-07-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/g\/neil_genzlinger\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neil Genzlinger<\/a><\/strong>, Television Critic<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 95%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2012\/07\/13\/arts\/13RDP_FAMILY_SPAN\/13RDP_FAMILY_SPAN-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 95%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">Olga Nenya and her foster and adopted children in 2008, in front of their house in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>, as seen in the documentary directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliaivanovafilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julia Ivanova<\/a>. <em>First Pond Entertainment<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyportraitthefilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Portrait in Black and White<\/a>,\u201d a documentary by Julia Ivanova, leaves a lot of questions unanswered, which is frustrating, but it gets high marks for honesty.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been easy for this film, which is about a woman in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> and the more than 20 adopted and foster children she has taken in, to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hagiography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hagiography<\/a>, but instead it\u2019s a portrait of an imperfect solution in a country that seems to have a lot that needs solving.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s name is Olga Nenya, and she has made it her particular mission to provide a home for mixed-race children who have been abandoned by their parents. That is a brave thing for her to do because such children are shunned by many in Ukraine, which has a virulent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_power_skinhead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">skinhead movement<\/a>. We don\u2019t learn much about Ms. Nenya, like why she got into this work or what financial resources she is drawing on to put food in all those hungry mouths&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/13\/movies\/family-portrait-in-black-and-white.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: \u2018Family Portrait in Black and White\u2019 The New York Times 2012-07-13 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic Olga Nenya and her foster and adopted children in 2008, in front of their house in Ukraine, as seen in the documentary directed by Julia Ivanova. First Pond Entertainment \u201cFamily Portrait in Black and White,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,28,414,8],"tags":[4615,11292,2640,4620,2327,4616],"class_list":["post-24351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-europe","category-family","category-media-archive","tag-julia-ivanova","tag-neil-genzlinger","tag-new-york-times","tag-olga-nenya","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63291,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24351\/revisions\/63291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}