Typecasting: Double-Takes, Danger, and Death

The problem of squeezing Black people into certain predictable boxes

Hello friends,

As a Black woman—a person of the global majority*—every time I walk into a global minority, predominantly white space, I feel like many people around me experience cognitive dissonance, that mental discomfort when something, or someone, doesn’t quite fit your beliefs. Do you know how some actors always play the same kinds of roles? Well, t…