Though looking quite ridiculous, James Whitmore turned in an impressive performance about a reporter who turns his skin black and goes to live in the south to witness firsthand as a black man the bigotry directed towards black people.
Whitmore's character experiences an identity crisis feeling as he is subjected to a variety of prejudices from all sorts of people who he comes into contact with.
We have a very similar idea to the Laura Z. Hobson's "Gentleman's Agreement," where a writer pretended to be Jewish to see firsthand the ugly effects of anti-Semitism.
Whitmore is subjected to just about everything. Even his questioning by a prospective Ph.D candidate who is doing a cross-study study is cultural, especially the doctoral candidate becomes drunk and says things that an educated person is not expected to say.
This is a compelling firm. Even the black family who he lives with while passing himself off as black, is irritated when they find out that he is really Caucasian.
Whitmore's character experiences an identity crisis feeling as he is subjected to a variety of prejudices from all sorts of people who he comes into contact with.
We have a very similar idea to the Laura Z. Hobson's "Gentleman's Agreement," where a writer pretended to be Jewish to see firsthand the ugly effects of anti-Semitism.
Whitmore is subjected to just about everything. Even his questioning by a prospective Ph.D candidate who is doing a cross-study study is cultural, especially the doctoral candidate becomes drunk and says things that an educated person is not expected to say.
This is a compelling firm. Even the black family who he lives with while passing himself off as black, is irritated when they find out that he is really Caucasian.