Milchick, Natalie, cinematography, and race

One of S2E3's absolute best scenes (in an episode full of them) is Milchick recieving the "re-canonicalised" portraits of Keir. It's a scene absolutely dripping with subtext, but I wanted to talk about how the cinematography and blocking (positioning of the actors in a scene) enhance the uncomfortable race dynamics in the scene.

The way the camera tracks Natalie around behind Milchilck positions her against a dark background and leaves her front lit with an intense white light, brightening and whitening her complexion. Meanwhile the same movement leaves Milchick almost silhouetted against the white background, backlit with his face partly in shadow, exaggerating his blackness. Natalie's literal physical position, as well as her position as board representative, is erasing her race and creating contrast between her and other employees of colour. Meanwhile that very same action is putting Milchick at a contrast with the company's whiteness and highlighting his blackness, the complete opposite of the board's stated goal.

Natalie's actions, her role, her position in the room, and the building itself conspire to put up boundaries between Natalie and Milchick, contrasting their differences and inhibiting their ability to relate to one another with solidarity. They also make visually explicit Milchick's feelings of alienation by this overtly well-meaning but actually extremely tone-deaf and quite racist gesture. It's remarkably good filmmaking (TVmaking?) to emphasise the symbolic meaning and subtext of the scene through not just the script, the acting, or the direction, but the lighting, set design, and cinematography as well.

Does anyone have any podcasts, reviews, essays, etc. who have talked more about the scene from a race standpoint? It's something I would love to hear talked about by someone with expertise/experience since it's such a heavily subtextual scene.