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11.09.2023 - 23:29 / variety.com
Aramide Tinubu Literary legend Toni Morrison once called racism a distraction. “It keeps you from doing your work,” she said during a 1975 speech. “It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.” Black people must contend with everything from blatant acts of racist terrorism to small microaggressions that filter into our everyday lives.
Instead of existing, you find yourself in a state of constant emotional regulation and survival, one that is exhaustingly unfair and unsustainable. For people of color and Black folks navigating predominantly white spaces, this constant state of code-switching and performance can quickly become horrific and soul-sucking. Hulu’s “The Other Black Girl,” based on Zakiya Dalila Harris’ best-selling novel of the same name, opens with two Black women walking similar paths in different timelines.
In 1988, Kendra Rae Phillips (Cassi Maddox) is the sole Black editor at the prestigious Wagner Books in Manhattan. She is distraught when she first appears onscreen, scratching furiously at her scalp and apparently hanging on to her sanity by a thread. In the present day, viewers are introduced to editorial assistant Nella Rogers (Sinclair Daniel).
The only Black employee at Wagner, Nella has become well-equipped to handle the pressures of her role. Her experiences involve overly eager “allies,” a frazzled and oft-condescending boss, Vera (Bellamy Young) and the impending release of a novel riddled with racist rhetoric and stereotypes written by the company’s top (white) author. Though Nella is resolved that her isolation and tokenization are the cost of her ambition, she is delighted when Hazel-May McCall (Ashleigh Murray), a new editorial assistant who also happens to be Black,
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BreAnna Bell SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 1 of “The Other Black Girl,” now streaming on Hulu. “How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice to succeed?” That’s the question showrunners Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey were seeking to answer when they adapted Zakiya Dalila Harris’ novel “The Other Black Girl” for TV with executive producer Rashida Jones. And somewhere in the midst of exploring microaggressions and race relations in the workplace, Nella (Sinclair Daniel) finds her answer as she winds up caught in Harris’ fictional sorority of Black women success stories.
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