nominations for white females since 1990, a study by IMDB reported by CNN Entertainment. This demonstrates the lack of appreciation for black entertainers. Generally, when an entertainer receives an award like an Oscar, they earn more job opportunities and can build a higher salary by reason of having experience and awards for your work, but for black people even if they have those successes it is still difficult for them to move forward.
Black entertainers don’t receive numerous awards therefore it becomes difficult for them to find jobs in entertainment and make an exceptional salary from it. Luckily, there are successful entertainers who have had lead roles, gotten Oscar awards and been paid a large amount of money, but what people don’t …show more content…
In fact, the challenges are even difficult behind the scenes of the entertainment industry, only a limited number of black people work in these related jobs like Writers, directors, Executives and Chair/CEOs. If you search up entertainment executives on google you will only spot white males taking on those jobs. To be exact reports from UCLA found 18 major studios in Los Angeles and examined those studios and found 94 percent of CEOs and/or chairs running these studios are white and 100 percent male. Meanwhile, the studio’s senior management corps was 92 percent white and 83 percent male. This the norm in the entertainment industry and till this day number are still low in black people with high position jobs in the entertainment industry, and in several cases, studios have shown no black individual working in the high-end positions in this industry. The numbers get worse for black females. Film writers play an extensive role in films and in 2013 only 12.9 percent of the 170 films examined in 2013 by UCLA, where given credit to women of color. While 87.1 percent of white males receive credit as writers. Television unit heads employers were 86 percent white and 55 percent male and less than 10 percent …show more content…
Despite the progress that has been made in the industry, we should have significantly notice more progress than what we have witnessed. It is not a simple change, everyday this happens to affect black people every day and prevents them from moving forward and becoming successful in the future. The negative images of African-Americans even affect government policy as well. This is enough evidence to demonstrate how racism is intertwined into their culture. These racial challenges are struggles of black people in the industry that needs to
Black entertainers don’t receive numerous awards therefore it becomes difficult for them to find jobs in entertainment and make an exceptional salary from it. Luckily, there are successful entertainers who have had lead roles, gotten Oscar awards and been paid a large amount of money, but what people don’t …show more content…
In fact, the challenges are even difficult behind the scenes of the entertainment industry, only a limited number of black people work in these related jobs like Writers, directors, Executives and Chair/CEOs. If you search up entertainment executives on google you will only spot white males taking on those jobs. To be exact reports from UCLA found 18 major studios in Los Angeles and examined those studios and found 94 percent of CEOs and/or chairs running these studios are white and 100 percent male. Meanwhile, the studio’s senior management corps was 92 percent white and 83 percent male. This the norm in the entertainment industry and till this day number are still low in black people with high position jobs in the entertainment industry, and in several cases, studios have shown no black individual working in the high-end positions in this industry. The numbers get worse for black females. Film writers play an extensive role in films and in 2013 only 12.9 percent of the 170 films examined in 2013 by UCLA, where given credit to women of color. While 87.1 percent of white males receive credit as writers. Television unit heads employers were 86 percent white and 55 percent male and less than 10 percent …show more content…
Despite the progress that has been made in the industry, we should have significantly notice more progress than what we have witnessed. It is not a simple change, everyday this happens to affect black people every day and prevents them from moving forward and becoming successful in the future. The negative images of African-Americans even affect government policy as well. This is enough evidence to demonstrate how racism is intertwined into their culture. These racial challenges are struggles of black people in the industry that needs to