African American actors

What do Chicago actors make? A new study looks at inequality in pay, race and gender explains why America is unequal because the article explains that white males have the most contracts which are papers a person signs to do the job given to them and they also get paid more amount of money compared to women and people that are colored. It mentions that 72% of actors in theater are white and the next highest group represented is African Americans at 8%. For a lead role, African Americans get paid $150

This semester we had the opportunity to learn about African-Americans and Latinas/os in film and television. Throughout the semester we learned about the following terminology; feminism, white supremacy, representation, intersectionality, stereotypes, whitewashing, and many more. As a group project, my group and I decided to focus on whitewashing in the movie industry. We researched the history, impacts, and the importance of whitewashing in society. Our main goal was to learn different ways to prevent

certain groups that may not be accurate for example, African Americans in the media are portrayed as criminals, drug addicts, or misogynist which also includes African American women are viewed as abrasive and promiscuous. While there are millions of responsible and respectable African Americans. They are not celebrated in the media. What the community sees are instead are thing in movies and on TV. This changes the general perception of African Americans and cause people to assume they are violent and

The history of African Americans in early Hollywood films originated with blacks representing preconceived stereotypes. D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film, Birth of a Nation, stirred many controversial issues within the black community. The fact that Griffith used white actors in blackface to portray black people showed how little he knew about African Americans. Bosley Crowther’s article “The Birth of Birth of a Nation” emphasizes that the film was a “highly pro-South drama of the American Civil War and

television series which stereotypes a race is "The Sopranos." In the Sopranos, the main character Tony Soprano, an Italian American, is the head of an organized crime family. They are stereotyping that all Italian Americans are involved in organized crime. The television show "Growing Up Gotti" is also about an organized crime family and also stereotypes Italian Americans in this

African American Women in Early Film       In early film many African American actresses portrayed roles as mammies, slaves, seductresses, and maids. These roles suppressed them not allowing them to show their true talents. Although they had to take on these degrading roles, they still performed with dignity, elegance, grace and style. They paved the way for many actresses to follow both blacks and whites. These women showed the film industry that they were more than slaves, mammies, and maids

surrounded with controversy through and through. It was the second time in a row that absolutely no African Americans had been nominated. Considering that a lot of great movies came out in which African Americans either wrote, directed, or acted in, a few in the the Black community exclaimed that the racism in Hollywood needed to end. On the other hand, others felt that the reason that no black actors were nominated was because they were not good enough this year, or the one before that…, to earn a

a predominantly african american club, after an altercation, Kai who is Chu Sing’s right hand man intervenes and sends Po home. A fight ensues and the next day Po is found dead. We then meet Han Sing played by actor Jet Li, Han is imprisoned in Hong Kong but after the news is revealed that his brother has died (Po) he escapes and heads to the United States to avenge his brother 's death. Han meets Trish O’Day, the daughter of a Isaak O’Day, he is the leader of an african american gang that is at

that there is an unequal race diversity within the Hollywood industry. This is not as shocking because, since the beginning, the United States was being built upon race inequality. To illustrate, Africans were being brought to this country to be taken away their rights as a human being, Native Americans were being robbed of their own land, and other people of color were being treated as lesser than a white man. As time went on, progress was being made, but people of color were still being seen as

African Americans in modern America have bound together in unity against inequality to help end the unnecessary murders and unjust police beatings. However, where did these tensions between police and African Americans begin? This question can be answered by looking at the history of police in America and why they were originally established. Police first came on to the scene in 1704 when Carolina established the nation’s first slave patrol that would turn into what we know today as the modern police