A Thanksgiving Tale (1983)

Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.

The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.

“It's not ghosts. It's not supernatural. It's... It's America. And it's everywhere.”

This is not a story of oppression but a story of liberation.

This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.

A family adventure film that features Hawaiian culture with a representative director and a diverse cast.