American Gods: well, there are also all the origin stories for how the various gods at first came to America which presumably might be used as well. And Shadow needs to be black, yes. Or at the very least played by a dark-skinned Asian or Arab actor. (I don't think the book specifies the ethnicity, but he's consistently described as "dark", so I assumed his mother was African-American, too.)
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American Gods: well, there are also all the origin stories for how the various gods at first came to America which presumably might be used as well. And Shadow needs to be black, yes. Or at the very least played by a dark-skinned Asian or Arab actor. (I don't think the book specifies the ethnicity, but he's consistently described as "dark", so I assumed his mother was African-American, too.)