At work I have a dear friend, who is 30, single, intelligent, not-pretty, but clean and dark. Now she started to date an American guy working here. Of course it was the ususal hush-hush affair.She wishes she can marry him.Now the guy is going back home and the friend is going to be single once more.Somehow this affair got me thinking.

And I couldn't help but put my mind to understand "inter-racial love affairs" that are so much a part of diasporic film. There are reasons - identity, race relations, marginal status,power, gender relations, colonial imperialism all of these can be reflected in an "Inter -racial Romantic Relationship".

My Ph.D is going to have a section talking about this aspect of diasporic film, which I find so insightful yet so banal on one hand.


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