Hollywood Diversity In The Media

Watching Family Guy, Shameless, The Kardashians, and Bob’s Burger where the main characters are played and portrayed as white people shows the domination of white people in the entertainment industry. Brooks and Hebert argument provides an understanding on how people of color are not casted into leading roles because white people have created a hierarchy of how race and gender are represented in media. The media pushes white people to dominate the leading roles and gives people of color insignificant roles. Those roles where people of color are typically antagonist or uneducated, which does not make you want to watch it. I believe it is the media fault for why I have a strong fondness for white television. They limit my desire to see other television series or movies because they created their shows in a way where the white protagonist is favored and you want them to accomplish their desire

Over the years television has been known to be one of the major educating and socializing institution in America. Television in today’s society is able to play a powerful key through which individuals can be informed, hold forums, and voice their opinion‘s. Television is also important because it offers us glimpses into minority life and minority figures. When sociologists examine minorities in television they document how minorities are portrayed and how those portrayals have changed over the years. Through time, minorities in television have been able to make moderate gains whether they are in front of or behind cameras. However, they continue to remain significantly underrepresented as leading actors in films, as writers, and as TV show creators. Even though minorities are significantly underrepresented in today’s society the TV industry has been pushing to give an opportunity to many minority groups in succeeding in the media. Several TV shows and commercials have succeeded in the TV industry to try and change how minorities are underrepresented, however, there are also shows that reinforce stereotypes and are prejudice towards minorities.

Television and film is a huge part of American culture. As the “face” of America changes, it is expected for our media to reflect it. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Since the beginning of film, minorities have been misrepresented and underrepresented. While there has been a significant increase in minority actors since the beginning of film, there is still a huge underrepresentation present in American television and film. Our media needs to reflect out diverse country. This topic is always important and relevant because race, gender, and sexuality, in general, have been issues throughout the growth of television and film. Even today, minorities are subject to

Hollywood not only shows little to none diverse to race but also gender on screen and behind the scenes. When watching a movie to the end credits most the names that are shown are males. The diverse for gender in Hollywood is low. Females are not given the same opportunity as the males. Article from NPR STAFF (2015) informed that women make up half of the U.S. population but only 6% of the females directed theatrical films in 2013(Hollywood’s Homogeneity section, para.1). Even though the study is old the data has not change. Population in females in Hollywood in front and behind the scenes cannot be compared to the nation. Hollywood is own by males which are keeping positions for women to a minimum. The heads of Hollywood are not willing to be diverse so they can stay in control. Among the ranks of top Hollywood film executives, the

I agree completely with Monika’s claim that lack of representation, whitewashing, and stereotypes are the issues in American media. I think the media don’t understand the importance of diversity and how it positively impact society. In fact the author’s stated that absence of minorities in shows where set in cities that have high present of minorities population which means that there are a race better than others and that’s what is going in the media displaying white race as more intelligent, affection and other races can’t survive without the white race .In the article the one the issues with whitewashing was replacing minority roles to white actors. However, The media argues that representing the minorities as mine characters may lead to

The film industry’s portrayal of African American people consists of countless stereotypes and inaccuracies. These depictions lead to an innumerable amount of misrepresentations about the African American community. As the latest wave of black films begins to dawn, the clearer the images become of a collective people. Using my personal experiences as a mixed woman of color, as well as including my academic strengths and goals, and points of view regarding various black films, the content of this paper will examine the representation and stereotypes that can be seen in African American Hollywood.

In tv shows or any other forms of entertainment, adding diversity to a cast can go two different ways. On one hand, you’ve brought together a well-rounded cast of diverse characters who share different ethnic backgrounds, sexualities, genders, and religions who have a range of different personalities and opinions despite what the common depictions of them are. On the other hand, the show or product is advertised as being diverse when in actuality everyone is a walking stereotype of who they are trying to represent, this is called tokenism. Tokenism is the practice of making a symbolic effort to do a particular thing, such as recruiting a small number of underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of equality, this

African American Portrayal in Hollywood All throughout the twentieth Century, minorities have made huge steps towards self-sufficiency and balance in American culture. These advances are a piece of our identity as Americans, yet it appears they have not completely invaded the aggregate entire of American culture. African Americans for decades had to endure insidious and egregious suffering, as well as being oppressed. It is upsetting that African Americans are still being portrayed on screen through the racial ideologies of white directors. In Hollywood, they are still portraying African Americans as Stereotypical, unequal, and domestic individuals.

African Americans have been represented in the media with harmful stereotypes which were founded in the slavery era (Cartier, 2014)(Carpenter, 2012). This negative representation invites bias from those who accept the images, the distortion of which is accentuated by both sexism and racism. Black women are the least represented group in cinema, making it easier to rely on stereotypes which encourage societal bias. From these stereotypes, like the Jezebel and Sapphire, stem the “real world” stereotypes of the welfare queen and the crack mother (Carpenter, 2012), showing that media portrayals have shaped public perception regarding black women. While certain genres have seen a rise in portrayals of diversity, overall Hollywood as an industry remains unchanged, inaccurately representing minorities (Smith et al., 2016).

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is one that attempts to detect implicit bias by asking test-takers to pair certain racial categories with deciding words like “pleasant” or “unpleasant.” In a test where “implicit bias against African-Americans is defined as faster responses when the "black" and "unpleasant" categories are paired than when the "black" and "pleasant” categories are paired,” “most people tend to prefer white to African American” (Jolls and Sunstein, 2006, p.971). The IAT also found that “scores on the IAT and similar tests are correlated with third parties' ratings of the degree of general friendliness individuals show to members of another race” (Jolls and Sunstein, 2006, p.972). If people associate certain negative traits

We all have visited the cinema once or twice in our lives to see just released movies with family or friends. Some rather watch romantic movies, others action or horror. There are so many different movies out there, each appealing to different people, but there’s one thing most movies seem to have in common: the main cast consists mainly out of white actors. There are barely any movies with a diverse main cast. Even when the character in the movie is a non-white person, there is a white person playing that role.

Theses are all very popular sitcoms that show little to none representation for people of color. The television show Girls, created by and starring Lena Dunham, has received many complaints on the fact that there were no people of color in the show when it had first aired, and there are still barely in it today. In the article ‘I’m a White Girl’: Why ‘Girls’ Won’t Ever Overcome Its Racial Problem, written by Judy Berman, Berman states, “Dunham continues to cast non-white actors only when race defines their character.” (Berman). What Berman means by this statement is unless the character’s race has to do with the role they’re playing, you most likely won’t see a person of color in the show. The only times you will probably see a person of a different race would be if their character was either in the background, playing a character that isn’t given a major enough role to even be given a name, or playing a role where they are seen in a negative light, such as a bum in the streets or a racially stereotypical character, such as an angry black man. A research project had been conducted at the University of Southern California to analyze and come to a conclusion as to how diverse Hollywood actually is. The researchers looked over several hundreds of films from the years 2007 to 2014, not including 2011, and studied more than 30,000 characters to reveal how truly diverse films in

Hollywood has been classically known to portray minorities in a negative light. Many times they will cast a white actor to play the roles of African Americans or Asians characters. Representing many minorities as the villains or laughing stocks within popular films can only lead to the American people associating the minorities with the things they see in the movies. Today's most common stereotypes are that women are weaker than men, African Americans are fools, people from the LGBT community are overly sexual, all Asians know Karate, Native Americans live in tepees, and Hispanics don't speak good english all stem from the movies made in Hollywood. Hollywood has a bigger impact on our lives than we know it, and as long as we keep watching stereotypicals

The goal of this blog post is to assess the need for proper representation in the media. This will be done through the examination of the lack of diversity and the under-representation of marginalized individuals primarily focusing the Dove campaign and the historical relevance of the legacy of colonialism and slavery are as a contributor as an example why minorities are underrepresented in the media. Assessment will also be made on how the underrepresentation of minorities sustains the oppression of individual development of self. It further aims to assess how black women are presented in the media through the use of dominant discourses or single stories and how it impacts the community interaction. The blog post will conclude that by solely

With the media being more diverse now, while the movies and television programs portray characters of different races while being underrepresented in movies and TV shows. Many actors of different races were asked to play stereotypical roles from maids and immigrants to thugs and prostitutes in. This being a misconceptions about how different races are being portrayed in the media.