"Improving the race" by dating white -- this interview with some NYT reporters about colorism points out that the Dominican Republic and its immigrant community in the US is far more explicitly racist than the country to which they emigrated... nytimes.com/2021/06/21/mov… 
The reporter also refers to colorism within the black American community, but "improving the race" is far more *explicit*
The ultimate cause of this valuation, is of course, colonial domination by Europeans.
My point is that moving from Latin to Anglo-America means moving to a place where this valuation is much less overt and intense, and likely to be best preserved *within* your immigrant cohort
My point is that moving from Latin to Anglo-America means moving to a place where this valuation is much less overt and intense, and likely to be best preserved *within* your immigrant cohort
So making a "whitewashed" film is not actually acting in accordance with mainstream American norms and expectations -- but *Dominican* immigrant norms and expectations....
(If in fact the film was actually whitewashed.) A friend who lived in Wash. Heights for years said that the stills from the film do not show a group who are on average any lighter than the people one sees in Wash Heights.
However, it does seem there was no major character who was Afro-Latino....
Yeah dark Dominicans who appear black to the rest of the world tend not to self-ID as black
https://twitter.com/CapnMacheath/status/1407699809239240704?s=20
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