At the Movies | The Angry Black Woman

The problem with viewing films by demographic.

Category: At the Movies, In the Blogosphere, Society & Culture

September 2nd, 2009 | 35 comments

Via Angry Asian Man, a great article that makes a point about the ineffectiveness of protests about racism in mainstream Hollywood films. Basically, if we don’t patronize the good portrayals created by our own filmmakers, we’re unlikely to see much change in the racist dreck being cranked out by the Hollywood factories, because they [...]

The people and their cultures: POC and the movies

Posted by: unusualmusic

Category: At the Movies, Entertainment, Link Roundups, Media, On the TV, Race

August 15th, 2009 | 37 comments

The Examiner’s Ed Moy inquires Does Hollywood ‘white-wash’ the casting of Asian characters in movies? Then he proves it…
After doing some research, I discovered that “The Last Airbender” wasn’t the only recent movie that cast white actors in roles that were originally created as Asian characters.
For example, the character of Kyo Kusanagi will be played [...]