L.histoire noire du "Green Book"

La victoire de "The Green Book" aux Oscars suscite un peu de controverse aux États-Unis. L'histoire, racontée selon le point de vue du blanc, rappelle même à quelques auteurs les tristement célèbres lois Jim Crow. Le film se veut pourtant rassembleur dans le ton et il permet de faire découvrir à bien spectateurs le guide dont plus personne ne parlait.

 "The Green Book was subversive in another way as well. It promoted an image of African-Americans that white Americans rarely saw — and that Hollywood deliberately avoided in films for fear of offending racist Southerners. The guide’s signature image, shown on the cover of the 1948 edition — and used as stationery logo for Victor Green, Inc. — consisted of a smiling, well-dressed couple striding toward their car carrying expensive suitcases.

Green believed exposing white Americans to the black elite might persuade white business owners that black consumer spending was significant enough to make racial discrimination imprudent. Like the black elite itself, he subscribed to the view that affluent travelers of color could change white minds about racism simply by venturing to places where black people had been unseen. As it turned out, black travelers had a democratizing effect on the country."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opinion/green-book-black-travel.html