Whitewashing In Hollywood: Film Analysis

Research has shown that there has been no legal action taken to address whitewashing in Hollywood and that there have been no laws to prevent it. However, the abundance of criticism that has been given regarding whitewashing has had effects on whitewashing in films and has lessened it happening more so every year. In Hollywood’s early years, whitewashing was extremely prevalent in films and while we can still see whitewashing in today’s films, there has been a significant difference made ever since the amount of disparagement regarding the whitewashing of roles meant to be played by people of color (Screen Rant, 2015). These critics have given blunt commentary on the whitewashing in Hollywood films. The Variety (2015) points out that The Martian …show more content…
The Media Action for Asian Americans aims to help Asian American actors who work in film to advocate their rights as actors in films. This organization has had different campaigns in order to protect the rights of Asian Americans and to denounce those that are seen as offensive to Asian Americans. MANAA’s campaigns have reached the press and have been posted about. MANAA’s most recent criticism is their comments on Aloha, a film that is criticized widely for its incredible amount of whitewashing. MANAA (2015) gave fault to the Cameron Crowe film and shamed it for its evident whitewashing on the Asian/Pacific Islanders. Majority of the characters in the film are played by white people when according to MANAA’s Founding President, 60% of Hawaiian’s population composes of Asian American and Pacific Islanders. The denunciation of this film reached BBC News (2015) and was posted about on their website. While there are many people that are still unaware of the severity of whitewashing in Hollywood films, these posts and harsh comments given on whitewashing in Hollywood films do have an effect on how people see movies and really educate the uneducated on this