> Ngozi Onwurah's _Coffee Colored Children_, a short about growing up > mixed-race in England, has a harrowing scene where a little girl tries to > scrub off her brown skin with abrasive cleanser. It's really a very moving > film. It's distributed in the US by Women Make Movies in New York. > Reading this reminded me of one of the original Cracker stories - ie those made in the UK. In that story a black british man, who is also one of the major suspects of the crime, does not like to let his lower body be visible and had as a child attempted to bleach his skin white. This aspect of his life comes out during the police investigation, I can't remember whther he tells the story or whther his mother does. I think this was from the second series, definitely not the first, and might have been towards the end of it, though I don't remeber that well. It would have been broadcast in the UK 1995ish. I think these have also been aired in the US but I don't know the timing for that. ------------------- Aylish Wood Department of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]