#racism in media
A new study from the University of Southern California finds there has been no change in the number of Black movie directors in the past 10 years and Disney is at the back of the pack.
So what is Disney’s problem? The real loss here is that diversity improves quality. Even when minorities and their lives are the subject of a cartoon, representations of race can be disappointing.
Maybe because they just haven’t had any directors that happen to be black be a better candidate than a director that happened to be white?
That could very well be down to the fact that there’s a lot less black people in the US than other races.
0 actually doesn’t reflect the US population.
I realize we’re in the age of “alternative facts” but
wait no we are not those are just lies
0really doesn’t reflect the US population and there are NOT many fewer black people in the U.S., and that definitely isn’t the direction we’re going in
Any way you cut it, ZERO is not a number of directors justifiable by anything other than racism
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watching ke huy quan’s performance in everything everywhere all at once just made me really sad, and, moreover, angrythat we missed out on twenty years of great performances from him because the racism of the industry tricks people of color into believing there’s not a space for them.
ok, so it’s been a few days since i’ve watched captain jack harkness (aka the episode where jack and tosh get sent to the 1940s) and it just feels completely false to me that tosh doesn’t feel any anger at being placed in a situation that she has stated to be personally traumatic for her. after tosh expresses her fears about being stuck in a time period close to the pearl harbour attacks, the discussion immediately shifts towards discussing jack’s experiences in the 1940s! and when tosh ends up facing the samepersecution as her grandfather, we don’t get her reaction or any scene where she actually talks about how she feels, nothing! how can you have a character, particularly a british japanese woman facing anti-asian racism during ww2 andnotfocus on her reaction to a moment you have previously established as frightening for her?
yes, you could argue that tosh’s way of ‘processing’ is by immediately trying to solve problems and getting to work. sure! but i can’t help but draw parallels to ianto, who is similarly defined by his work and service to others in the earlier episodes, but his anger and frustrations are still given fair treatment, particularly in the cyberwoman episode. also, this is more of a note on torchwood/doctor who as a whole, but if you’re engaging with narratives of oppression and not actuallycentring the experiences of the characters from the oppressed group, particularly their justified anger, then who is this story for? to push a saviour narrative about how altruistic the white leads are? or using racism as ‘set dressing’ while the episode ultimately focuses on the pain of the white lead? (as many people have already mentioned, the family of blood is an egregious example of this with how it treats martha).
again, i’m only midway through season 2 and i’m hoping that the show ends by delving into tosh’s psyche in a more interesting and meaningful way. they almost got there with greeks bearing gifts and i can see what they were trying to achieve in to the last man. but also, what is it with all of tosh’s extremely few standalone episodes heavily featuring a storyline where she needs to emotionally/physically service the needs of a white guest character? usually achieved by manipulating tosh and taking away her agency? mary in greeks, tommy in last man and in an extremelygross way with adam. and they never address it again!
listen, i love tosh. i think naoko mori gives a fantastic performance and i think her empathy, capability in tough situations, and predilection for defining herself by her achievements are all really interesting traits. but at times the writing for her character feels dangerously reminiscent to say, someone like glenn in the walking dead, who was also the sole asian lead actor in a predominantly white genre show. steven yeun puts it best in this interview, that there’s just frustration at being consistently reverted to “dependable, supportive, benign” asian sidekick for the white leads.
“Taika finally gave the world a show with canonically queer vampires!”
Icannotbe the only person on this website who remembers True Blood.
It premiered on HBO the year after tumblr launched.
It ran for 7 seasons.
True Blood was never a tumblr darling. I don’t even think it was a mainstream darling all that much (even with all the awards, the decent popularity, critical acclaim and an openly gay showrunner at the helm). To be fair, it also focused too much on an extremely boring white straight heroine and her numerous heterosexual love triangles. Fans liked Lafayette, but he was never the fandom favorite due to the fandom racism and antiblackness there was never much fan content made for him, aside from memes and quotes.
Speaking of antiblackness, I’d also want to remind about the horrible misogynoir that Tara Thornton faced both from the fans and the show itself. The way the canon treated Tara is still one of the grossest things in TV history of modern times, imo. So, not really sad that no one here remembers True Blood. Though, there’s a reboot coming our way. Let’s hope it does things better than its predecessor.
