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Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism

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When the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second one 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, in spite of exhibiting talent and bankability, continue to lag at the back of white actors in presence and prominence? 
 
Reel Inequality examines the structural barriers minority actors face in Hollywood, whilst shedding light on how they live to tell the tale 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 by 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 face in Hollywood. 
 
This book not only conveys the harsh realities of racial inequality in Hollywood, but also provides necessary insights from actors who have succeeded on their very own terms, whether by sidestepping the system or subverting it from within. Taking into account how their struggles have an effect on real-world attitudes about race and diversity, Reel Inequality follows actors of color as they suffer, strive, and thrive in Hollywood.
 

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