"Rushes" are footage that filmmakers check each day of production. Along those lines, this section will contain current information, press releases and articles, and the like...
Jabari Asim, columnist for the Washington Post discusses the film in the scope of his op-ed, “Getting the Joke“:
… “Race is the Place,” a worthwhile documentary that will first air Nov. 22 on PBS, features a number of performers with similar aims. ..
Read the Dallas Morning News review, “Blunt talk colors PBS special about race relations…”
By ED BARK / The Dallas Morning News
It’s teeming and often seething with words and images that cut through the core of standard-issue decorum.
PBS’ Race Is the Place boldly lives up to its billing as a one-hour “jam” that unflinchingly “yanks off the muzzle of political correctness to speak the often-ugly truths that lie beneath the rosy talk of ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘diversity.’ “
A “Best Bet”:
Independent Lens (10-11 p.m., KERA/Channel 13) Tonight’s film, Race Is the Place, looks at the big picture of race in America through artists’ eyes –artists such as an Egyptian-born comedian, a Puerto Rican poet and a Luiseno
Indian performance artist. You won’t find any of these people on the American Music Awards, but you’ll probably be more enlightened by them. PBS.
Race is the Place was listed in the NY Times today, in the “What’s on tonight” section:
10 P.M. (13) INDEPENDENT LENS: RACE IS THE PLACE — Writers and performers of various ethnicities comment, directly and through their work, on racial attitudes. They include Mayda del Valle (left), Amiri Baraka, Haunani-Kay Trask, Beau Sia and Danny Hoch. Eduardo Guerrero, who died in March, sings about the unlikelihood of his ever seeing Chicano characters on television. Ahmed Ahmed, a comedian, shares some of his memorable experiences with airport security.
