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1. • • Whitewashing is a casting practice in the film industry in which white actors are cast in non-white roles. As defined by Merriam-Webster, to whitewash is "to alter...in a way that favors, features, or caters to white people: such as...casting a white performer in a role based on a nonwhite person or fictional character."
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   What is whitewashing in film?

   • Whitewashing is a casting practice in the film industry in which white actors are cast in non-white roles. As defined by Merriam-Webster, to whitewash is "to alter...in a way that favors, features, or caters to white people: such as...casting a white performer in a role based on a nonwhite person or fictional character."

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   What is whitewashing in Hollywood?

   • Whitewashing in Hollywood is the well-documented practice of movie executives and other decision makers to choose white actors to portray people of color on film. One of the most famous cases of Hollywood whitewashing involves Mickey Rooney portraying an Asian character in 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

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   What is whitewashing in media?

   • In its simplest form, whitewashing refers to the tendency of media to be dominated by white characters, played by white actors, navigating their way through a story that will likely resonate most deeply with white audiences, based on their experiences and worldviews. There are four distinct types of whitewashing.

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   Are whitewashed movies a trend in the 21st century?

   • Unfortunately, there’s another long-standing trend in Hollywood rearing its ugly head in the 21st century: whitewashed movies. Whitewashing in Hollywood is the well-documented practice of movie executives and other decision makers to choose white actors to portray people of color on film.

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   Are white actors whitewashed?

   • Although White actors had been playing characters of other ethnicities for centuries, often employing blackface, redface, and yellowface, the term “whitewashing” didn’t become a popular way to describe this practice until the late 1990s.

   Whitewashing: What It Really Means — and Why It's a Problem

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   Why does whitewashing still occur?

   • The correlation between population and representation in film is completely and utterly skewed in favor of white people. And this is one of the explanations for why whitewashing still occurs. With 94% of Hollywood executives being white, the majority of those movies will have white leads, even if it’s at the expense of ethnic characters and actors.

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   May 24, 2024 · What does whitewashing mean? According to one Merriam-Webster definition, to whitewash is to “gloss over or cover up,” which, in a sense, is what the racial form of whitewashing does.

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   In its simplest form, whitewashing refers to the tendency of media to be dominated by white characters, played by white actors, navigating their way through a story that will likely resonate most deeply with white audiences, based on their experiences and worldviews. There are four distinct types of whitewashing.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Whitewashing_in_filmWhitewashing in film - Wikipedia

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   Whitewashing in film. White actor Mickey Rooney wore yellowface to portray I. Y. Yunioshi, a Japanese landlord, in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's. Whitewashing is a casting practice in the film industry in which white actors are cast in non-white roles. [1]

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   Dec 31, 2019 · Whitewashing in Hollywood is the well-documented practice of movie executives and other decision makers to choose white actors to portray people of color on film. One of the most famous cases of Hollywood whitewashing involves Mickey Rooney portraying an Asian character in 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

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   The Curse of La Llorona	Anna Tate-Garcia	Latina	Linda Cardellini
   Annihilation	Lena	Asian American	Natalie Portman
   The Post	Ben Bagdikian	Armenian American	Bob Odenkirk
   Jungle	Yosseph Ghinsberg	Israeli	Daniel Radcliffe

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   Instead of a flagrant stain upon cinema, it is a shadow that lurks in the background. Instead of blackface, there is whitewashing. “Whitewashing” is generally defined as choosing a “white male or female to portray a character who is originally of an ethnic background.”.

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   Sep 5, 2017 · Whitewashing happens in a number of ways. It can be the whitening through casting of a character who was originally a person of colour in historical or source material, as with Daimio in the new...

10. woottoncommonsense.com › 9083 › common-sense-and-theWhitewashing in the media: past and present – Common Sense

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    Feb 5, 2021 · Whitewashing is a process in the film industry where white actors are cast in non-white roles. As opposed to under representation, where there is an overload of white actors and white characters, whitewashing is when POC are being removed from their roles to be inaccurately replaced by white actors. For children who have grown up...