A new documentary called “Blurring the Color Line” explores the lives of Chinese Americans in the Jim Crow South. Crystal Kwok, the filmmaker, wondered where Chinese people sat on the bus during segregation. Kwok, a Chinese American whose family ran a line of grocery stores in Augusta, Georgia, looks into how they navigated the color line at the time. As The World’s Rebecca Kanthor reports, the film was meant to raise hard questions about race that are still relevant today.
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