Maybe the BBC's adaption of MalorieBlackman's Noughts & Crosses and the discussions that it provokes will be the shake-up we need 🙌
Last Thursday at 9pm, BBC One broadcast the television adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s popular young adult book,was first published in the early 2001 and is the first book in a series of five books and three novellas that depict what life is like in a fictional dystopian Britain, called “Albion,” where Crosses are the historical and contemporary oppressors of white people .
is often critiqued for perpetuating white saviour narratives, where the bumbling black detectives of San Marie are unable to solve any cases without a white Englishman being flown in to have a “eureka” moment at the last second, one can hardly say the same for Noughts & Crosses. In this series, both black and white characters have agency.
Moreover, as we live today in a society where many black Britons are of direct West African descent it was particularly significant to hear Yoruba phrases like “E se” and “pẹlẹ” on screen and to see women of esteem proudly wearing geles, West African headdresses.
The two really did find love in a hopeless place: reality TV. Now they're America's couple. And everyone is waiting to see what they'll do next.Even some of the subtle costume choices made by the show stand out, where the ‘nude’ plasters are dark-brown, almost scarily serendipitous at a time when Tesco has just released diverse skin-tone plasters; and where all of the white characters try to emulate black hair styles, curling their hair and wearing it in dreadlocks and braids.
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