Blackwashing in film
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Blackwashing is a casting practice in the film industry of the United States in which black actors are cast in historically or canon non-black character roles. The film industry has a history of frequently casting black actors for roles involving white people, including Eupean-Americans,Hispanics, and any other Non-black culture. The practice started at the beginning of 1930 in film industry.[1]
New Films like "the avenger:infinity war" have been largely blackwashed,while in the film" Beauty and the Beast" many extras and secondary characters have been painted as color-people despite the time the film was set (around 1750-1800 d.c.) it is unlikely that so many color people would live in a village in the French countryside and manage churches,libary or be singhers. Another example of blackwashing is the new Annie film.[2]
At the theatrical level, the representation of "harry potter" is using a color attendant to represent Hermione Granger, destined in books and film reproduction as a "typical English girl", so hardly with somatic negroids traits.
References
- ^ ""Blackwashing" in film: It's a good trend". The Daily Wildcat. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
- ^ Jackson, Barbara-Shae (2014-03-11). "Uh-Oh, is the New 'Annie' Black-Washing Hollywood?". Atlanta Black Star. Retrieved 2017-04-26.