whitewashing – ConStar Universe

01/16/2015

ConStar Clicks

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This week’s #ConStarClicks involve diversity, geek tv shows, & and lack of diversity in geeky books. I sure know how to craft a theme, y’all. That theme is my life.

06/27/2014

Why it matters that FX’s ‘Tyrant’ didnt cast a Middle Eastern actor in its lead role

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Why it matters that FX’s ‘Tyrant’ didnt cast a Middle Eastern actor in its lead role Check out this Hit Fix article on new FX show Tyrant and the writer’s concerns about the lead actor, playing a Middle Eastern character, being cast as white. That, friends, is why it is important that FX is premiering a […]

12/15/2013

Article Response: Whitewashed TV isn’t just racist. It’s boring! – Salon.com

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In James Cameron’s “Avatar,” a white man once again plays savior, this time to a planet of tall blue aliens unambiguously suggestive of Native Americans. What if they’d cast Michelle Rodriguez, who plays a stereotypical no-nonsense doomed Latina side character, in the lead role instead of Sam Worthington? The context of an interesting movie about […]