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It’s one of the reasons why she cast British Asian actor Gemma Chan and black British actor Adrian Lester as white historical figures Bess of Hardwick and Lord Randolph, respectively.
- Hanna Flint
Mar 4, 2013 · Stars: John Lithgow, Kristen Johnson, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The premise: In order to mask themselves as the average middle class white family, a group of aliens...
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Jul 11, 2004 · The premise of the film -- Shawn and Marlon Wayans are undercover FBI agents -- hinges on their believability as white, high-society debutantes in the Hamptons. “It was the Wayans brothers...
- Were Some Ancient Greeks Black?
- But Doesn't Homer Say Achilles Is White in The Iliad?
- What About Zeus?
- Why Are The Greeks White in Art then?
“Our best estimate is that the Greeks would be a spectrum of hair colours and skin types in antiquity. I don’t think there’s any reason to doubt they were Mediterranean in skin type (lighter than some and darker than other Europeans), with a fair amount of inter-mixing,” says Whitmarsh. Not only were the historical Greeks unlikely to be uniformly p...
Not exactly. In the Iliad, Homer describes Achilles as having blonde hair – and that’s only a rough translation. The actual term he uses, xanthē, could mean 'golden' or a variety of words – “Greek colour terms are quite strange and don’t map out well on ours,” says Whitmarsh. Difficult translations aside, Homer’s work don’t give us the full story o...
Zeus, King of the Gods, is... well... a God. “And the thing about the Gods,” explains Whitmarsh, “is that when they reveal themselves to people they have to take on a different form.” This form could be anything: a swan, a bull, an eagle, a shower of horny gold rain, or even that of actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim, as seen in Fall of a City. So, why couldn'...
For a few reasons. Firstly, the 'white' Greek marble statues that fill up our museums were actually originally painted different colours. The paint didn't survive the test of time: the marble did. The second reason? That’s much more interesting: it’s the same reason that can explain why Jesus tends to be a European in Western people’s minds, and wh...
Even A-listers like Angelina Jolie and Ben Affleck have come under fire for portraying Black and Latino real-life figures. Take a look at 25 people of color from history whose stories were deliberately whitewashed when white actors portrayed them.
The Iron Age was a time of dramatic change for the people of Britain and Europe. Iron replaced bronze as the material used to make tools and weapons, while religion, art, daily life, economics and politics changed dramatically.
Sep 12, 2017 · The Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton invented the concept of ‘white people’ on 29 October 1613, the date that his play The Triumphs of Truth was first performed. The phrase was first uttered by the character of an African king who looks out upon an English audience and declares: ‘I see amazement set upon the faces/Of these white ...
