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This study aims to dissect how whitewashing and blackwashing differ, as well as discuss how blackwashing succumbs to the racist history of the Hollywood film industry despite its attempt at leading a brighter future for Black representation in film. Whitewashing will be viewed as direct racism, or the act of treating people differently in
We argue that when The Hate U Give was rendered into a film, a number of the changes weakened the novel‘s counterstory messages around racism and white supremacy. Key Questions to Consider When...
Whitewashing roles, whether from a desire to cast colorblind or to cast for financial motivations, must be taken within the greater context of the marginalization of minority actors in film. Whitewashing robs actors of color of the few important, positive roles available to them. In a letter to Media Action Network for Asian Americans the
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Mar 11, 2021 · In this article, I offer a few explanations for why this is so. I posit a music-theoretical “white racial frame” that is structural and institutionalized, and argue that only through a deframing and reframing of this white racial frame will we begin to see positive racial changes in music theory.
A CRML analysis allows students to critically challenge what is presented to them through film. In doing so, they become critical consumers of films who are better able to understand the world(s) they live in and how the whitewashing of films relates to many of their daily experiences with race. References Anderson, T. (2018, August 30).
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Sep 2, 2020 · So, whites “critiquing whites,” “refusing complicity,” “naming what’s going on,” “subverting white authority,” and “dismantling whiteness” is sorely needed in music theory if we are to make positive change with respect to race in our field.
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ABSTRACT: Grounded in critical race media literacy (CRML), we contend that a comparison of The Hate U Give novel and adapted film can allow for more nuanced conversations in the classroom regarding the functions of racism in America, including intersectionality and colorism.
