Mixing Nia

Mixing Nia is 1998 dramedy film by director Alison Swan. The film stars actress Karyn Parsons, as Nia, a biracial woman on a journey to find her true identity.

Though her circle of friends is of all races, she has spent most of her life identifying with the Jewish side of her culture, and is a selfproclaimed yuppie. She hopes to identify more with the AfricanAmerican side of her heritage, and find an authentic black experience. Her first attempt at this is in enrolling in an AfricanAmerican writing workshop. In this class she meets and falls for the instructor, Lewis Washington. At the same time, she goes out with her former coWorker Matt for drinks, and finds that he has had a long time attraction to her as well. Nia pursues both of these relationships, with each man exploring a different side of her identity. She begins to learn that the two sides of her identity clash, and that she cant even be too much of either race. She is at times too white for Lewis, who comments that maybe he should find a real black woman, and leave Nia. She also at times feels out of place with Matt, feeling she does not fit in with his friends, and in some instances even feels isolated by their opinions and racial remarks.Everything comes to a head when Nia invites both men to a wedding in which she is a bridesmaid. She is forced to make a decision between the two, but ultimately decides on being alone. She returns home, hoping to speak with her downstairs neighbor Joe Serrano, a musician. During the whole movie she has had a fleeting flirty relationship with him, free of discussion of her race, and more about finding who she is as a person. She looks for him as her last person to turn to, but finds that he is gone, and has subleased his apartment formonths. Joe left a gift for her, a guitar, which inspires her to continue her novel, which she had given up on. ........

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