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Reel Inequality : Hollywood Actors and Racism by Nancy Wang Yuen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Reel Inequality : Hollywood Actors and Racism about?
<p>When the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. Yet these enduring racial biases afflict not only the Academy Awards, but also Hollywood as a whole. Why do actors of color, despite exhibiting talent and bankability, continue to lag behind white actors in presence and prominence?    Reel Inequality examines the structural barriers minority actors face in Hollywood, while shedding light on how they survive in a racist industry. The book charts how white male gatekeepers dominate Hollywood, breeding a culture of ethnocentric storytelling and casting. Nancy Wang Yuen interviewed nearly a hundred working actors and drew on published interviews with celebrities, such as Viola Davis, Chris Rock, Gina Rodriguez, Oscar Isaac, Lucy Liu, and Ken Jeong, to explore how racial stereotypes categorize and constrain actors. Their stories reveal the day-to-day racism actors of color experience in talent agents’ offices, at auditions, and on sets. Yuen also exposes sexist hiring and programming practices, highlighting the structural inequalities that actors of color, particularly women, continue to f
Who reads Reel Inequality : Hollywood Actors and Racism?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nancy Wang Yuen
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813586298
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Performing Arts, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14