{"id":40230,"date":"2015-03-03T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40230"},"modified":"2016-01-02T02:08:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T02:08:37","slug":"black-and-white-vs-black-or-white-bioethics-and-mixed-race-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40230","title":{"rendered":"BLACK AND WHITE vs BLACK OR WHITE: Bioethics and Mixed Race Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioethicsscreenreflections.com\/2015\/03\/black-and-white-vs-black-or-white.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>BLACK AND WHITE vs BLACK OR WHITE: Bioethics and Mixed Race Families<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioethicsscreenreflections.com\" target=\"_blank\">September Williams&#8217; Bioethics Screen Reflections: Film, Television, and Media Critiques Relevant to Bioethics<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15942463164777115248\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>September Williams, MD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Black and White<\/em>, screened at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and later at the Mill Valley Film Festival, in October 2014. The same title was also used to discuss the film in various film trade publications. However, the film\u2019s title changed by the time of its USA distribution date, January 30, 2015. The word \u2018and\u2019 was replaced with the word \u2018or\u2019. That is, the film title became <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2883434\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Black <\/em><strong>or<\/strong><em> White<\/em><\/a>. Use of the word \u2018and\u2019 better reflects the courage of writer-director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Binder\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Bender [Binder]<\/a> in broaching contemporary issues around race and class. The film only superficially reflects two entities fighting one another. Much more prominent in the story is a struggle for Black and White to save each other. Bender [Binder] dares to suggest, we might all be in this mess together, sinking or swimming. Ignoring antebellum period themes, it\u2019s a new take&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Obvious bioethical concerns in <em>Black and White<\/em> include concerns for the best surrogate for a child whose parents are no longer able to parent; the age of autonomous decision making for children and historical injustices inherent in racism and classicism. The role of grief, acute and prolonged, in the context of substance abuse stands out. In the end it is the lagging of social construction, far behind the science of the human genome, that keeps viewers watching.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:steven@stevenriley.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen [Steven] Riley<\/a> wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=6079\" target=\"_blank\">an analysis of stresses<\/a>, those identifying as Mixed Race, felt in filling out Box 9 on the 2010 United States census. He describes people agonizing about accurately portraying their racial identity. Riley states \u201cFor those who desire to portray their \u2018accurate racial\u2019 identity, I have news for you \u2014 \u2018racial accuracy\u2019 is an oxymoron. \u2018Race\u2019 as a biological, or anthropological construct is an utter fallacy\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioethicsscreenreflections.com\/2015\/03\/black-and-white-vs-black-or-white.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLACK AND WHITE vs BLACK OR WHITE: Bioethics and Mixed Race Families September Williams&#8217; Bioethics Screen Reflections: Film, Television, and Media Critiques Relevant to Bioethics 2015-03-01 September Williams, MD Black and White, screened at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and later at the Mill Valley Film Festival, in October 2014. The same title was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8413,8,9139],"tags":[19188,19187,19487,19486],"class_list":["post-40230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-pov","tag-black-or-white","tag-mike-binder","tag-september-williams","tag-september-williams-bioethics-screen-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40230","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=40230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44932,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40230\/revisions\/44932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}