Ebook {Epub PDF} Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism by Nancy Wang Yuen

50 reel inequality diversity. On the other hand, it is one of the most powerful and fla-grant (even if unconscious) perpetuators of racism through exclu-sionary . Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism: Author: Nancy Wang Yuen: Publisher. 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.

Professor Nancy Wang Yuen is a sociologist, documentary producer, and pop culture geek who has made a career examining how mass media represents Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She has recently published a book titled, Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, examines the obstacles minorities face in Hollywood. Wanting to learn more. Nancy. Wang. Yuen. Email. () ext. @nancywyuen. Yuen's research focuses on race/gender in popular culture, Asian American studies, and visual sociology. Her book Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism examines the barriers African American, Asian American and Latina/o actors faces in Hollywood and how they creatively. Nancy Wang Yuen discusses her book Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism with Chris www.doorway.ru is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Sociology Department at Biola University. She is the author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (), the first book to examine the barriers actors of color face in Hollywood and how they creatively challenge stereotypes.

Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism is the first book to examine the barriers African American, Asian American and Latina/o actors face in Hollywood and how they creatively challenge stereotypes. This groundbreaking work combines statistics on the Hollywood industry with over personal interviews with working actors and other industry personnel to tell a comprehensive story of racism in Hollywood. Nancy Wang Yuen is a sociologist and pop culture geek. Her book, Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, examines the barriers actors of color face in Hollywood and how they creatively challenge stereotypes. Nancy enjoys reading YA dystopic novels, singing karaoke, and taking her kids to the local library. Nancy Wang Yuen points out in Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, that actors of color generally have fewer acting opportunities, all as a result of the homogeneity of the directors’ chairs and writers’ rooms of Hollywood. Her study found that 77 percent of casting calls specify a white actor.