Gloria Monti comments: "This is getting really interesting. 1) It is the non white element that makes a couple interracial, thus establishing a paradigm against which *the other* (than white) is measured. 2) Since when is there a doubt that Hispanics are not a race? 3)Cage, not Gage--as in Nicholas. :-)" Sorry, about 3. My slip Re: 2--I don't know. Obviously, culturally and politically Hispanics are defined in racial (or at least "ethnic" terms), but I have heard and read many of people of Central/South American/Carribean/Chicano origin complain about being lumped together in one category (like Italians and Swedes? :-).) Anyway, my response was meant only in the context of the original project being discussed. As to 1--I'm not sure what other paradigm exists, since whites have defined the terms for race and racialism for centuries. Obviously, one can imagine many multi-racial contexts for various combinations, but how many of them are actually depicted in American films--and only as a relationship and not an issue. All too many people are ready to make an issue out of it, as some of the recent commentary on PULP FICTION suggests. --Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN :-]