{"id":49878,"date":"2016-11-11T02:22:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T02:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49878"},"modified":"2016-11-11T02:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T02:22:34","slug":"hollywood-has-long-shown-discomfort-with-interracial-couples-but-change-is-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49878","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood has long shown discomfort with interracial couples, but change is happening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood has long shown discomfort with interracial couples, but change is happening<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n2016-11-10<\/p>\n

Lewis Beale<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nKatherine Houghton<\/a> puts a flower in Sidney Poitier’s<\/a> hair in a scene from the film “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner<\/a>.” (Getty Images)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In 1967, the same year the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia<\/em><\/a> struck down laws banning miscegenation<\/a>, Sidney Poitier<\/a> starred in \u201cGuess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner<\/a>\u201d as a black man romantically involved with blond Katherine Houghton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet in both real and reel life, black-white romantic relationships were problematic, fraught with legal and social taboos. In the case of Loving<\/em>, that meant rural Virginia<\/a> couple Richard and Mildred Loving, who married in Washington, D.C.<\/a>, in 1958, were arrested in their home state, forced to move away or be jailed, and spent years fighting the racist law that affected them until the Supreme Court unanimously overturned it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact any miscegenation laws even existed, these are vestiges of slavery,\u201d says Jeff Nichols<\/a>, director of \u201cLoving<\/a>,\u201d a new film based on the famous case starring Joel Edgerton<\/a> and Ruth Negga<\/a>. \u201cAll of this speaks to the institutionalized racism in the South.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGuess,\u201d which was released six months after the Loving<\/em> decision, was, in its own way, meant to be a liberal antidote to situations like this. In director Stanley Kramer\u2019s<\/a> film, \u00a0parents and friends of the romantic couple discuss the pros and cons of their romance in a civilized manner until the woman\u2019s father (played by Spencer Tracy<\/a>) gives his blessing to the relationship…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hollywood has long shown discomfort with interracial couples, but change is happening The Los Angeles Times 2016-11-10 Lewis Beale Katherine Houghton puts a flower in Sidney Poitier’s hair in a scene from the film “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner.” (Getty Images) In 1967, the same year the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia struck down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[20081,25397,25398,3909,24061,2754,1335,827,20643,6858,13272],"class_list":["post-49878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-joel-edgerton","tag-katherine-houghton","tag-lewis-beale","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-loving-vs-virginia","tag-mildred-loving","tag-richard-loving","tag-ruth-negga","tag-sidney-poitier","tag-stanley-kramer","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49878","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=49878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49880,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49878\/revisions\/49880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}