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Plus: Olympic Reminiscences View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Saturday, March 3, 2018 [Join Race/Related »]( [When Hollywood Is Our Mirror]( By ADEEL HASSAN [A free screening of “Black Panther,” held for more than 150 children last month, in Flint Township, Mich. ] A free screening of “Black Panther,” held for more than 150 children last month, in Flint Township, Mich. Jake May/Flint Journal-MLive.com, via Associated Press The Oscar-nominated filmmaker [Ava DuVernay]( spoke at the New Yorker Festival last fall about breaking into a movie industry that she said “wasn’t made for me.” Hollywood was “made by white men, for white men, to make things for white men,” said Ms. DuVernay, who is best known for the films “[Selma]( and “[13th]( Her thoughts on the industry’s historic lack of representation prompted us at [Race/Related]( to ask: When was the first time you saw yourself represented on the silver screen? A few of our responses are below, but we want to read your answers as well. This weekend, maybe while you’re watching the Academy Awards on Sunday, please share with us your response. We’ll include some in a future newsletter and on our website. Please keep them to 50 words and send them to racerelated@nytimes.com. ______ [Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” ] Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” Columbia Pictures My family in Haiti, where I was born and raised, was captivated by the smart and educated character played by Sidney Poitier in “[Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner]( He made us feel proud. The powerful message was that this black man and his white fiancée were facing her family (and the world) and saying that was O.K. I think it was the first time I thought to myself: Love trumps color, race, culture, and even fear. — Vanessa Ricot, project manager, marketing ______ My mother was American and my father Colombian, and Lucy and Ricky on “I love Lucy” were the first ethnically mixed, semi-bilingual couple I had seen on TV. The show, which I saw reruns of as a child in the 1980s, introduced ideas like culture clash; it lightly made fun of American cluelessness about other countries, in the figures of Fred and Ethel. A comic genius, Lucy used slapstick and crocodile tears to combat her husband’s machismo — and when you look at how Latina actors in her position are still forced to play stereotypes of the docile wife or the sexy spitfire, that still looks radical today. — Annie Correal, reporter, metropolitan news ______ I am not athletic, British or Indian. But Parminder Nagra, who played Jess Bhamra in “[Bend it Like Beckham]( was close enough. She loved her traditional brown family, but she was fiercely independent and a talented soccer player. She even nabbed the hot (white) boyfriend over the Keira Knightley character. She was everything the tween in me wanted the chance to be. — Fahima Haque, editor, social media ______ I didn’t see myself in someone who looked particularly like me, but rather in someone who matched my passion for the performing arts. I fell in love with the movie “[Selena]( because of the singing and dancing. It was one of the first movies I saw with a leading Latina actress. — Lisa Godwin, creative technologist [Jon Moritsugu, left, and Amy Davis in “Terminal U.S.A.”] Jon Moritsugu, left, and Amy Davis in “Terminal U.S.A.” James Dwyer, via Everett Collection It took me until college to find American movies made by, or starring, Asians who weren’t martial artists. Those were also the years when the “[model minority]( myth was really grating me, and I was drawn to transgressive portrayals of Asians. [Jon Moritsugu]( movies, in all their anarchic glory, were a revelation, especially “Terminal U.S.A.,” which somehow made it onto TV in the 1990s despite all its gore and drug use. Later, Justin Lin’s “[Better Luck Tomorrow]( depicted a group of Asian-American high-school students who fall into a world of crime. These are not the greatest movies ever made, but they meant a lot to me because they ignored the standard immigrant-experience formula and seemed to say: “Yeah, we’re Asian. Now shove it.” — Dave Kim, editor, national news ______ In my sophomore year of college, I attended a screening of “[Saving Face]( During the Q. and A. with the director, Alice Wu, I realized it was the first time I had seen any representation of Chinese-American lesbians on screen. It’s hard enough finding movies about queer women or about Asian-American women, so seeing both identities woven together in one film was incredible. Fourteen years after the movie came out, it remains alone at the center of such a Venn diagram of underrepresentation. — Kathy Zhang, analytics manager ______ I was so excited in kindergarten to see a free-spirited, brown woman running around and calling the shots in “Pocahontas.” I repeatedly watched the videotape, and my mother let me grow my hair down, like Pocahontas. The problem is, I’m Indian-American, so Pocahontas doesn’t actually represent me at all. It was just the closest character I could hold onto. I’m still waiting for my Indian-American heroine to come along. — Neeti Upadhye, producer, video ______ [From left, Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams in “Aloha.”] From left, Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams in “Aloha.” Neal Preston/Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing I’m still waiting to see myself on screen, and Emma Stone playing a Chinese-Hawaiian-Swedish fighter pilot in “[Aloha]( doesn’t count. It would’ve been better to cut the character altogether — I wouldn’t have noticed her absence — than to give the role to a white actress and expect no one to care. — Audrey Carlsen, editor, graphics ______ I never looked to film or television for representation. I was a black kid who played sports, and I looked up to athletes: Tito Trinidad, Ronaldo, Michael Johnson, Thierry Henry and Roy Jones Jr. These men of color were the best at what they did, and they wore their excellence and their beauty unflinchingly. I never noticed anything similar on the screen until Will Smith in “[Independence Day]( and Wesley Snipes in “[Blade]( When they were saving the world, they resembled the superheroes already in my life. — Greg Howard, reporter, metropolitan news ______ I have never had any inclination to become a police officer, and as a child, I had never been to California. But what I saw in Axel Foley, Eddie Murphy’s character in “[Beverly Hills Cop]( was a black man who was funny, charismatic, shrewd and in many ways a hero. Truthfully, Foley’s race was not at the fore of my mind when I watched the show, but it was inspiring to see that a natural leader could look just like me. — John Eligon, race reporter, national news ______ Days before the United States dropped bombs on Baghdad in January 1991, “[Not Without My Daughter]( the crudest possible film portrait of Iraq’s neighbor, Iran, was released. I was too young to fully understand this strange convergence of events. But I know now that they’re linked for another reason: Hollywood’s systemic demonization of Arabs, Persians and Muslims in general has made it much easier for Washington, the media and the public to start and support wars with no end in sight. And it’s still the last place I’d look for representation. — Adeel Hassan, editor, Race/Related Olympic Reminiscences Before the euphoria of the 16-day Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, wears off, we wanted to revisit a few of our favorite stories. For three of our Korean-American colleagues, the two weeks on the Korean Peninsula were a homecoming of sorts. We share their stories below – a short dispatch, a culinary tour and a photo essay. [It’s a Small World, After All]( []( Inyoung Kang/The New York Times [Inyoung Kang]( [Inyoung Kang]( I was waiting for the 8:24 train back to Seoul when I heard the two men coming — laughing, chattering, clanking. They were covered in Norwegian flags, from their glasses to their cowbells to their Viking plushies. I gawked for a moment before asking if I could take their picture. “Of course!” they said in unison, beaming and posing. I snapped a photo and asked if they were in Pyeongchang to cheer for anyone in particular. In the station, I had met a Swede who had come to support his daughter, an Alpine skier. “No, we are just fans,” one said. He gestured at his friend’s get-up. “We came here for fun. As long as we can make people smile, we are happy.” The first Olympics I remember watching were the Nagano Games in 1998. As a child, I was fascinated by the sports, the teams and how the world seemed to come together and put aside its differences, if only for a little while. Now, 20 years later, I was in the country of my parents’ birth to cover my first Olympics. I have always felt a bit like an outsider — a minority at home or a foreigner with an American accent here. But that night on the train platform, on my 20th visit to Korea, the world felt a little smaller. I thanked the Norwegians, and we parted ways. Inyoung Kang is an editor on the news desk at The New York Times. Reporter’s Notebook [An Olympic Challenge: Eat All the Korean Food That Visitors Won’t]( By ANDREW KEH “It’s peak snow crab season right now,” the noted chef David Chang said. “I don’t know if people understand.” Our correspondent knew that, and much more. Lens [A Times Photographer’s Journey Home to the Winter Olympics]( By JAMES ESTRIN Chang Lee, a staff photographer who grew up in Busan, South Korea, recounts how he covered the drama, the spectacle and a unified Korean team at the Winter Olympics. Connect With Us. [Ava DuVernay will speak on March 8 at a TimesTalks event. Ticket information is below.] Ava DuVernay will speak on March 8 at a TimesTalks event. Ticket information is below. Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times Join us at 9 p.m. Eastern on Wednesdays as we examine topics related to race and culture on The Times’s[Facebook page](. This week we examined whether the #OscarsSoWhite movement has changed Hollywood. Ricardo Lopez, who writes about diversity in the movie business for Variety, and Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, a watchdog organization spoke with our correspondents Rachel Swarns and John Eligon. [[Watch]( If you’re in New York… Spend the evening of March 8 with Ava DuVernay, the Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated director, producer and screenwriter, as she discusses her forthcoming “A Wrinkle in Time,” and the fight for female voices and intersectionality in film. [[Tickets]( Like Race/Related? Tell us what you’d like to see by writing to racerelated@nytimes.com, and help us grow by forwarding our newsletter to five of your friends and have them sign up at:  [( We want to hear from you. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please email thoughts and suggestions to [racerelated@nytimes.com](mailto:racerelated@nytimes.com?subject=Newsletter%20Feedback). Want more Race/Related? 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