A New York Times guest essay discussed the recent backlash behind Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra' series that portrays the historical figure as a Black woman.
James, the star of"Cleopatra," recently called out this lawsuit as well as Egyptian critics during a podcast following the show’s release.
Nally and Gilbert concluded by insisting that Cleopatra can be recognized as"culturally Black" based on the cultural identity of oppression that she faced at the time."To recognize Cleopatra as culturally Black is not to pretend that skin color is meaningless now — in the manner of recent figures like Rachel Dolezal and Jessica Krug, who claimed a cultural identity that was not theirs.
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