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Whitewashing Through Film: How Educators Can Use Critical Race Media Literacy to Analyze Hollywood’s Adaptation of Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give. Matthew Cowley. International Journal of Multicultural Education.
- Matthew Cowley
When used as a framework to analyze media, Yosso argues, critical race theory facilitates the examination of how race and racism influence images of People of Color as presented in media. Furthermore, CRML applies Freire’s understanding of literacy to media texts, which include Hollywood films.
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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...
The accurate term coined to describe this phenomenon is whitewashing. In this article, I will briefly examine this existing racist practice in Hollywood by highlighting some selected whitewashed race representations in American cinema.
Jan 1, 2017 · Aumer et al. (2017) find that whitewashing may be beneficial, as, under some circumstances, audiences prefer White actors. Hermosilla et al. (2018) find that the Chinese preference for fairer...
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.
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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
