Ifn a society that has oppression of PoC (people of color) deeply embedded in its history (and even today), whitewashing concocts a false illusion that race problems do not exist, that PoC do not face discrimination and that PoC do not need representing. “anything, as deceptive words or actions, used to cover up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame” is the definition of Whitewashing by Dictionary.com. Since 1937 T.V. has been putting white actors into shows and kicking out people of color. This is mainly due to directors wanting to have big names in their shows. This discrimination ranges from only caucasians in TV to having minority character leads but are played by a black faced caucasian. Ever
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With maybe some ethnic characters in the background to fill the room. As Vanessa Brinis-Norris states “Consider some of the most popular television shows in the past two decades. There’s Seinfeld (1989 – 1998) that centres around four white people living in New York, Friends (1994 – 2004) six white people living in New York, Will & Grace (1998 – 2006) four white people in New York.” http://lipmag.com/opinion/white-washing-in-television-from-silencing-to-stereotypes/ These shows have been seen by so many people and very few people have brought it to attention that there are very few popular shows have people of color as leads. This brings society to realize that we have suppressed people of color to the point where a majority of people haven’t realized …show more content…
In spite of Television being whitewashed, people of color may be coming back into movies and shows “A recent UCLA study found that even though racial and gender diversity in television remains appallingly low, more diverse shows bring higher audiences while less diverse ones struggle.” - Daniel Jose Older “A recent UCLA study found that even though racial and gender diversity in television remains appallingly low, more diverse shows bring higher audiences while less diverse ones struggle.” - Daniel Jose Older http://www.salon.com/2013/12/09/whitewashed_tv_isnt_just_racist_its_boring/
Even though things are getting slightly better. It still doesn’t mean that the problem is gone. This is another form of racism that has not been dealt with enough. Society has brought it up in the media and nobody has made serious efforts to tell people how this is wrong. We have thousands of actors that have been unnoticed. Some of these unknown actors have so much potential to be great actors. We just can’t keep reinforcing racial stereotypes and cutting off people of color’s opportunities just because they’re not
With maybe some ethnic characters in the background to fill the room. As Vanessa Brinis-Norris states “Consider some of the most popular television shows in the past two decades. There’s Seinfeld (1989 – 1998) that centres around four white people living in New York, Friends (1994 – 2004) six white people living in New York, Will & Grace (1998 – 2006) four white people in New York.” http://lipmag.com/opinion/white-washing-in-television-from-silencing-to-stereotypes/ These shows have been seen by so many people and very few people have brought it to attention that there are very few popular shows have people of color as leads. This brings society to realize that we have suppressed people of color to the point where a majority of people haven’t realized …show more content…
In spite of Television being whitewashed, people of color may be coming back into movies and shows “A recent UCLA study found that even though racial and gender diversity in television remains appallingly low, more diverse shows bring higher audiences while less diverse ones struggle.” - Daniel Jose Older “A recent UCLA study found that even though racial and gender diversity in television remains appallingly low, more diverse shows bring higher audiences while less diverse ones struggle.” - Daniel Jose Older http://www.salon.com/2013/12/09/whitewashed_tv_isnt_just_racist_its_boring/
Even though things are getting slightly better. It still doesn’t mean that the problem is gone. This is another form of racism that has not been dealt with enough. Society has brought it up in the media and nobody has made serious efforts to tell people how this is wrong. We have thousands of actors that have been unnoticed. Some of these unknown actors have so much potential to be great actors. We just can’t keep reinforcing racial stereotypes and cutting off people of color’s opportunities just because they’re not