Mississippi Masala (1991)

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It’s there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region’s Indian and African American communities.

• forced migration
• idi amin
• immigrant
• interracial relationship
• interracial romance
• mississippi
• mississippi river
• racial prejudice
• racism
• southern usa
• uganda
• woman director