Look Homeward, Angel: Maroons and Mulattos in Haile Gerima's "Sankofa"

Haile Gerima's 'Sankofa' shows the passage of a black American whose journey to the past provides a new consciousness of her African identity. Gerima also depicts a Maroon's resistance to slavery and shows his complex history. Although Gerima claims the mulatto character in the film deconstructs stereotypes, the character's sexual impotence exploits a stereotype and is viewed as an "unnatural" product of the mixture of races.