Blackness and Whiteness in Mexican and Hollywood Films
Films dealing with blackness and whiteness
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- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsClaudette ColbertWarren WilliamRochelle HudsonA struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
- DirectorAbel SalazarStarsLibertad LamarqueEusebia CosmeRoberthaTwo friends,one white(Alicia) one black (Roberta) have their friendship tested by the racial prejudices that surround their society.
- DirectorJoselito RodríguezStarsPedro InfanteEmilia GuiúRita MontanerAngelitos Negros is a story of prejudice and sacrifice; the plot centers around a woman who does not realize her heritage, brought up as the "white"wealthy patron's daughter, she is actually the daughter of the black maid.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsLana TurnerJohn GavinSandra DeeAn aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsMarga LópezRita MontanerRoberto Cañedo
- DirectorLeonardo De MitriFrancesco De RobertisStarsAngelo MaggioUmberto SpadaroIsa PolaAn orphaned mulatto boy witnesses a murder and becomes lost in the big city of Rome. A sequel of sorts to the film, Angelo.
- DirectorJoselito RodríguezStarsManuel López OchoaMartha RangelTitina RomayA blonde woman discriminates people of color all the time without knowing that in her veins runs the blood of that race.
- StarsClaudia IslasLaura FloresLorena RojasA white couple has a black baby girl - the husband's family accuse his wife of being unfaithful.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsAurora BautistaJulio AlemánMaricruz OlivierA pregnant single mother's baby in old Mexico is abandoned to die but he is saved and raised by a black slave woman and becomes a doctor. Years later, he meets his real mother who has become a nun.
- DirectorZacarías Gómez UrquizaStarsGloria MarínJorge MistralMartha RothIn Santiago de Cuba in the early 1950s, history begins. A young woman of high society becomes pregnant with a false love, her father orders his black maid (Dolores) to kill the baby (Alberto), but she flees to Havana where Alberto becomes a renowned doctor.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsJohnny NashEstelle HemsleyRuby DeeA black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.'s Civil Rights Era.