Each month we will be posting a new digital tool-kit with reading materials and resources to aid in counter-movements and the enhancement of critical media literate and de-colonial perspectives. This month, we kick 2019 off by sharing various perspectives and analyses on representations of people of colour in the media.
Black Panther: ‘Why people like me are refusing to be sub-plots’ (2018) via BBC
Casting “Crazy Rich Asians”: The privileges and pitfalls of being Eurasian (2017) by Louise Hung
Does Reality TV Have a Problem with Black Women? (2017) by Yomi Adegoki
The Handmaid’s Tale’s race problem (2017) by Ellen E Jones
The Harmful History of “Gypsy” (2017) by Jessica Reidy
It Doesn’t Matter That An Arab Will Play Aladdin (2017) by Khaled A Beydoun
Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Detroit’: When White directors tell Black stories (2017) by Touré
‘The Problem with Apu’ Trailer Asks: Is Apu From The Simpsons a Minstrel? (2017)
by Vulture
Stereotyping in the Media (blog) by Amanda Chandler
Typecast as a Terrorist (2016) by Riz Ahmed
What ‘Dear White People’ Gets Wrong About Africans (2017) by Arenike Adebajo
What do you see when you look at this cover? (2016) by Melissa Harris-Perry
What’s so hard about casting Indian actors in Indian roles? (2017) by Kevin Noble Maillard
Why the lack of Indian and African faces in Dunkirk matters (2017) by Sunny Singh
Zine queens: how women’s magazines found new life via indie publishing (2017) by Ruth Jamieson
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