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Racism In Hollywood: We Are All Affected, Media And Television

Research Paper Instructions:

Formulate a productive research question: this means asking a question for which you do not have a readymade answer and in which your audience has some interest.
Find and evaluate primary source material: primary sources differ from one discipline to the next. They might be lab experiments, observations of people in a community, or pieces of art. Regardless, the primary source provides direct evidence for answering your research question. For example, in geology it might a collection of rocks; in literary studies it might be a novel. So, if a geologist asks a question about the formation of a particular feature of the planet, she might examine rock samples from that location as a primary source. A literary scholar interested in the representation of women in a particular historical moment might examine a novel from that period. In our class, the primary source(s) will be one or more pieces of popular media which will serve as evidence for a question you have about how a particular issue is discussed or represented in the world.
Find and evaluate secondary sources: briefly put, secondary sources are texts produced by other researchers (academic and sometimes non-academic, like journalists or government officials) who are asking questions related to your own. Secondary sources are employed in different ways in different disciplines, but all disciplines refer to them. In our case, your task will be to select a few sources, analyze how they relate to one another (similar to our rhetorical analysis assignment), and then situate your own research in relation to them (e.g. where do you agree or disagree, what open questions do they have that you also ask, what new questions do you introduce).
Make a contribution: all research adds something to an existing conversation. Often we call this a “thesis statement.” The important thing to realize here is that while the final product of your researched essay might begin with a thesis statement (typically at the end of the first paragraph or beginning of the second), the research project does not. That is, as researchers we do not start by imagining we will make certain claims in a journal article and then go about doing research that will provide evidence in support of those claims. In fact, that would be unethical. Instead, we discover what our contribution—the claims or argument we will make—will be through the activities of research.
Requirements
A researched essay at least 2000 words in length.
At least 5 secondary sources, including direct citations (as described above). At least one must be a print source available at the UB Library.
Participation in the peer review workshop. Failure to participate in peer review will result in an automatic letter grade reduction to the assignment as well as any applicable rubric penalties.
Evaluation Criteria
You will be evaluated by the following criteria, roughly in order of decreasing importance:
A productive research question
A useful contribution/thesis statement
Effective use of secondary sources
Thoughtful response to workshop feedback
Appropriate use of citation
Spelling, grammar, other stylistic concerns

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Racism in Hollywood: We Are All Affected
Media and television are often crippled by discrimination and racism. So, how are cultural racism and cultural appropriation conferred and delineated in Hollywood? The concept of culture in Hollywood is often ignored, and there is usually misrepresentation in regards to race. Habell-Pallán (262) elucidates in Analysis of American reviews of controversial Hollywood movies that Hollywood is still crippled by high forms of racism. The actors and actresses go through these harsh realities of discrimination as they try to make it in the world’s most famous industry. People are conscious of cultural appropriateness and cultural racism. The minority groups are usually hard hit by these effects of racism and discrimination. There is usually racial bending, whitewashing, neo racism and many other forms of racism in Hollywood as will be discussed in this paper. These acts of racism have widespread adverse effects as will also be indicated in the paper. The effect of racism in Hollywood is extensive as it not only affects the people in the entertainment career but also their global audiences. Accordingly, the understudy will describe the extent of racism in Hollywood and its widespread inimical effects to many.
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Recently an Asian American Hollywood actress, Chloe Bennett, spoke out on her Hollywood experience and the harsh racial discrimination she has gone through in her career. The actress is popular for her role in the Marvels Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. The actress who previously went by her Asian name Chloe Wang describes her decision to change her name was highly influenced by the fact that Hollywood was not comfortable casting her with a name that made them feel uncomfortable (Habell-Pallán 261). She further elucidates the hard decision to change her cultural name was to enable her to have and grow her career and survive in Hollywood. Asian actors and actresses have slow progress in Hollywood and are normally only cast for roles of nerds and ninjas. Her comments on racism were highly inspired by Ed Skrein’s decision to pull out of a major role that he felt he would be ‘whitewashing’ a cast of an Asian parentage.
So, what is whitewashing? This is a popular erroneous casting trend in the film industry whereby white casts play the role of historical non-white character roles. This is witnessed in many films in Hollywood. For example, Marvel’s Doctor Strange included clear whitewashing in the casting of Tilda Swinton for the role of a character of Asian descent. This stirred a debate that Marvel fails to cast Asian actors/actresses for major roles. Based on comic characters, Marvel usually entails many non-white character roles. However, they often avoid this through whitewashing and/or racial bending. The examples of whitewashing in Hollywood are way too many. This just goes to show the level of cultural racism, and cultural appropriateness are rampant in Hollywood. Race bending is also another longstanding practice in Hollywood whereby film makers change the race of a character. Practices like blackface and yellow face have been continued. These are forms of theatrical make up on whites ...
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