The University of Georgia is hosting a screening of the documentary film “Blurring the Color Line” on Wed., March 22 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. in the Tate Theater at the Tate Student Center on UGA’s main campus. The event is free. Tickets available here.

A panel discussion will follow the screening, with panelists including Ms. Crystal Kwok, the director.

“This project has forced me to dig deep into the cracks of American history, of what is told, forgotten, or erased. It was important for me to weave in the significance of how the larger structure of segregation worked in the deep south and how that paved the way for the Chinese immigrants to enter. It begs us to ask where the Chinese, or any other minority for that matter, fit in on the color line and how it affected their sense of identity and attitudes towards Black people. Why were they able to go to white schools but had to live in the Black neighborhood? Why did certain Chinese families allow or not allow their children to play with their Black neighbor kids? How do these behaviors speak to today’s racial tensions?”