TwitterFacebookPinterestGoogle+

Tag Archives: White

Hollywood Wanted a White Actress to Lead 'Crazy Rich Asians'—So Author Kevin Kwan Fought Back

Crazy Rich Asians, which hits theaters this month, features an unprecedented feat in Hollywood: a principal cast entirely of Asian descent. It’s also, simply put, a really delightful romantic comedy. The movie follows a professor (Constance Wu) who travels to her boyfriend’s old stomping grounds in Singapore to attend an opulent wedding. (She’s also there…

Read more

My Boyfriend Is White and Rich. I'm Neither.

Here we were, eight months after our first date, driving to my boyfriend’s family’s country house for a weeklong visit. We were like the interracial couple in Get Out: I was a young black woman, riding in my boyfriend’s Prius to one of the whitest states in America, not knowing what to expect. I had…

Read more