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A successful author’s life is upended when she finds herself on a plantation straight out of the antebellum south.

Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.

Poor Black characters are usually surrounded by crime and violence, while poor White characters are portrayed as noble and hard-working.

White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.

'Kajillionaire' is a touching and eccentric story about family, crime, and the search for belonging.