Latinos in Hollywood: Few Roles, Frequent Stereotypes, New Study Finds. Latinos may be the most avid movie goers in the country, but chances are they won't be seeing many Hispanics on screen. A study released Monday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism exhaustively researched racial, ethnic and gender diversity on screen and behind cameras. The results found most stories "fail to represent the demographic composition of the U.S. " The study, which is called the Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity, found Latinos are among the least represented speaking roles in film and TV, even though they make up about 17.4 percent of the U.S. population.
Out of more than 11,000 speaking characters surveyed in film and TV, 5.8 percent were Hispanic or Latino. "For the past 10 years, we have quantified disturbing patterns around the lack of media representation concerning females and people of color in film," the authors stated in the report. Latinos Are Biggest Moviegoers, Yet Few Roles In Top Movies. Recent surveys consistently show Latino families are the most avid movie theater goers, yet when it comes to Latino actors in top roles, the numbers are very low.
“Hispanics and Latinos are one of the fastest-growing groups in the U.S.,” said Marc Choueiti, one of the authors of a new study from USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “If popular films were the only way to gauge diversity, viewers would be completely unaware of this. Individuals from this group are almost invisible on screen,” he stated as part of the study's release. The report found 4.9 percent of the actors in 2013's 100 top grossing movies were Latino, making Hispanic actors the most underrepresented group. Apart from the lack of Hispanic actors, the study found Latina actors were the group most likely to be partially or fully naked on screen - 37.5 percent of Latinas compared to 23.5 percent of Black, 31.9 percent of White and 18.2 percent of Asian actresses.
--Sandra Lilley. Wheres the Representation?: The Impact of White Washing on Black. Out of 30,000 Hollywood film characters, here's how many weren't white. Actress Viola Davis holds the award for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series for her role in ABC’s “How To Get Away With Murder” during the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California. REUTERS/Mike Blake – Viola Davis’s historic Emmy win served as an important milestone for African American actresses this week, but data suggest that the entertainment industry could do far more to achieve greater diversity in film. For Nearly a Decade, Diversity in Film Remain Largely UnchangedPercent of Characters by Race/Ethnicity in Top-Grossing Films: 2007-2014 White Black Asian Hispanic Other Source: USC Annenberg’s MDSC Initiative Researchers at the University of Southern California studied the 700 top-grossing films from 2007 to 2014, excluding 2011, and analyzed the race and ethnicity of more than 30,000 characters to reveal diversity in film.
Of the top 100 films of 2014, nearly three-quarters of all characters were white, the study showed. Study: White and black children biased toward lighter skin. 'Why do you want that skin color? ' New study shows black and white children are biased toward lighter skinTest aimed to re-create landmark Doll Test from 1940sStudy also showed children's ideas on race change little between ages 5 and 10 See the children take the test on tonight's "AC360" 10 p.m.
ET Watch children take and talk about the test on racial biases with Anderson Cooper and Soledad O'Brien on tonight's "AC360" 10 pm ET (CNN) -- A white child looks at a picture of a black child and says she's bad because she's black. A black child says a white child is ugly because he's white. This isn't a schoolyard fight that takes a racial turn, not a vestige of the "Jim Crow" South; these are American schoolchildren in 2010. Nearly 60 years after American schools were desegregated by the landmark Brown v. Renowned child psychologist and University of Chicago professor Margaret Beale Spencer, a leading researcher in the field of child development, was hired as a consultant by CNN. The Pygmalion Effect | Duquesne University. The work of Rosenthal and Jacobsen (1968), among others, shows that teacher expectations influence student performance. Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively.
Rosenthal and Jacobson originally described the phenomenon as the Pygmalion Effect. “When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur.” (Rosenthal and Babad, 1985) In terms of teaching, faculty who gripe about students establish a climate of failure, but faculty who value their students’ abilities create a climate of success. What kind of learning climate are you creating through your expectations?
Pygmalion in Tradition Pygmalion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book X) was a sculptor who fell in love with an ivory statue of his own making. Pygmalion Research in the Classroom Pygmalion on the Department Level Susan McLeod argues that the Pygmalion effect can infiltrate departments. Sources: Brown at 60: The Doll Test | NAACP LDF. Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark and "The Doll Test" In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological effects of segregation on African-American children.
Drs. Clark used four dolls, identical except for color, to test children’s racial perceptions. Their subjects, children between the ages of three to seven, were asked to identify both the race of the dolls and which color doll they prefer. A majority of the children preferred the white doll and assigned positive characteristics to it. The Clarks concluded that “prejudice, discrimination, and segregation” created a feeling of inferiority among African-American children and damaged their self-esteem.
The doll test was only one part of Dr. A “Disturbing” Result In an interview on the award-winning PBS documentary of the Civil Rights movement, “Eyes on the Prize,” Dr. In a particularly memorable episode while Dr. Although Dr. Exploring Racism in Overlooked Objects | Arts. Children’s toys: offensive or not? In a moderated discussion on Feb. 8, professor Robin Bernstein posited that racism often exists in unlikely objects and concepts of a culture. Raggedy Ann, a widely recognized stuffed doll of the American childhood experience, is one such unexpected preserve of racism. However, in this recent Writer Series Event held by the Harvard Foundation in conjunction with the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Department of African and African American Studies, Bernstein provocatively challenged the audience to consider the historical context of this seemingly inoffensive childhood object—a subconscious reminder of racism in many childrens’ lives.
She engaged in dialogue with organizer and moderator Grace L. Chen ’15 about ideas like this in Bernstein’s new book, “Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Civil Rights to Slavery.” These examples struck a chord with the large and engaged audience. 2014 World Population Data Sheet – PRB.org. Child Poverty Historical time series graph: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P60-245, Table B-2. Projections graphs: PRB analysis of data on rates by race/ethnicity from the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2012 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS); and data on population counts by race/ethnicity from the U.S.
Census Bureau 2012 Middle Series population projections, and 2013 Low and High Series population projections. Child/Teen Overweight/Obesity Historical time series graph: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center For Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1971-2012.
Young Adults With College Degrees Historical time series graph: University of Minnesota, IPUMS USA, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Current Population Survey, Version 3.0 (Machine-readable database). 1 © Christian Müller/500px Prime 2 © Alexandra Popa/500px Prime 3 © Michael T. MLA In-Text Citation Guide: How to Use Parenthetical Citations. Rumor has it.