So if you're aghast, as you should be, at a Chinese ad featuring literal whitewashing, consider that the figurative whitewashing performed by Hollywood is a big part of what made it possible.
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Just look at Never whitewashing all of his hard work.
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Worse, the piece took the Kelly whitewashing to another level.
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Whitewashing isn't incidental to this movie; it's the actual premise.
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Many centered on the controversial whitewashing aspect of the film.
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But we do history a disservice by whitewashing MLK's legacy.
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We have to protect that without doing a whitewashing job.
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" Andres Rodriguez added, "Citizenship is the whitewashing of our colonial realty.
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It's true that the term "whitewashing" is usually applied to casting.
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Now, a new Netflix original movie is being criticized for whitewashing.
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Hollywood has a very well-documented problem of whitewashing its films.
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The fantasy equivalent of something like Tom Sawyer's Whitewashing Simulator, perhaps.
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Yeah: That's a social commentary on the whitewashing of the Oscars.
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Users were not shy about calling out the production company's whitewashing.
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This blatant whitewashing earned Marvel a well-deserved round of criticism.
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But soon the whitewashing of the memory of slavery gained ground,
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One thing that did go well was whitewashing the fireplace bricks.
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"Some accused me of whitewashing my kids' skin," Mr. Towers said.
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It was the second bit of whitewashing for Duterte this weekend.
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Is that some type of justification for the whitewashing they've done?
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Or are we engaging in a whitewashing without even realizing it?
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Hollywood has been accused of whitewashing Asian characters with white actors.
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And that made him weirdly complicit in Barr's whitewashing of Trump.
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Separating imagery and events from historical context is exactly how whitewashing happens.
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Now the question is if it can rise above the whitewashing criticism.
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"Erasing names, however, runs the risk of whitewashing history," the editorial said.
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Scarlett Johansson's starring role as the Major has been criticized as whitewashing.
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The whitewashing issue goes beyond the actual bachelor or bachelorettes, of course.
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Many of today's top actors prefer the overcompensating whitewashing to avoid stereotypes.
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Of course, when it comes to whitewashing, there's not really a debate.
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"Peeps have been asking where I got my whitewashing shirt," she wrote.
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"The term 'whitewashing' is new, and it's extremely useful," Mr. Wong said.
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Some critics harassed them as Nazi sympathizers, bent on whitewashing Hitler's atrocities.
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They also accused the organization of crowding out and whitewashing grassroots efforts.
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"Pharrell's face just held hundreds of years of whitewashing resolve," another said.
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Tread carefully, those who traffic in this kind of selective historical whitewashing.
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They must not think it's whitewashing or pandering or anything like that.
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As far as the issue of whitewashing, I think it's a fundamental misunderstanding.
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PR whitewashing efforts to the contrary, Khartoum's brutal and corrupt record is clear.
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For once, Hollywood seems to have gotten the message about whitewashing Asian roles.
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Natalie Portman has responded to claims of whitewashing in her upcoming film Annihilation.
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Meanwhile, Rob Rousseau covered the WWE's whitewashing of the Ultimate Warrior's bigoted legacy.
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In the end, it's about the whitewashing of history, and of Hollywood narratives.
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Macklemore, in particular, has come to symbolize the potential whitewashing of hip-hop.
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Projects like The Outsider tend to get labeled as acts of whitewashing, but the term doesn't quite fit; whitewashing is meant to describe white actors getting cast to play nonwhite characters or in place of characters originally written as nonwhite.
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And whitewashing, sadly, isn't exactly a new (or past) thing in the theatre industry.
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It's no secret that whitewashing is a huge problem in both television and film.
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"Obama has shown the way forward in addressing the past without whitewashing and denying."
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Here's another whitewashing controversy to add to the apparently endless pile of Hollywood missteps.
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Although President Kennedy did not attend, his presence was key in whitewashing the event.
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And, as Mashable points out, she's just joined the great whitewashing debate of 2017.
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Obviously, Asian-Americans are not the only victims of Hollywood's continuing penchant for whitewashing.
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Recently, we've had so much whitewashing, too: Ghost in the Shell and Dr. Strange.
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It's prompted claims of whitewashing, and led Nissin to delete the ad from YouTube.
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But whitewashing Asian characters is about more than just representation—it's about cultural ownership.
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Other commentators also noted the similarities but used harsher terms like plagiarism or whitewashing.
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Hungary and Croatia are both whitewashing their World War II-era Nazi collaborationist governments.
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But David was a central player and no whitewashing of history will change that.
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The Whitewashing of Natural Hair Care Lines [Read] Moving Target: Is "Homeland" Still Racist?
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"Asian Americans already face many issues in Hollywood, including typecasting and whitewashing," Meng said.
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Whitewashing, or casting white actors as nonwhite characters, has galvanized Asian-Americans in Hollywood.
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Given its name, the startup felt like a literal whitewashing of bodegas as an institution.
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It sounds like Disney really took the whitewashing fears to heart for this movie, though.
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"That whole idea of whitewashing, I take that very seriously," Damon told the Associated Press.
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"I think more and more we are finding that whitewashing doesn't work anymore," says Choi.
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When whitewashing brick, Ms. Harris recommended focusing on small sections, a bit at a time.
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Whitewashing them will simply result in another 'whitewash' of the full truth about American history.
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There, they continued to honor the memory of their ancestors' rebellion, whitewashing history wherever necessary.
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Before he leaves, Mr. Obama can take steps to prevent further whitewashing of this history.
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"Myanmar has a pattern of investigative whitewashing," Mr. al-Hussein told the Human Rights Council.
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She was accused of whitewashing the character, which was based off of a Japanese manga character.
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It's time to end the whitewashing and put Latinos in front of and behind the camera.
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Which leads to the segment's opening and closing question: How is Hollywood whitewashing still a thing?
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Now, some might say that since she's a robot that there really isn't a whitewashing problem.
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Hollywood is rife with examples of whitewashing, but this movie doesn't neatly fit in that category.
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It feels like a token gesture; a tacit admission that yes, whitewashing happens — even in animation.
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Come on whitewashing a character is not only wrong it never work out for any movie.
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Ms. Wen castigated "Ghost in the Shell," tweeting about "whitewashing" and throwing in a dismissive emoji.
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"It feels like authentic New York without the whitewashing, still a little gritty," Mr. Fuller said.
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But normalizing him isn't the same as whitewashing his sins or the history of our country.
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But then again, this is Hollywood, and Hollywood has a bad track record of similar whitewashing.
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In addition to calling out the movie for whitewashing, critics felt it was "a tangled mess."
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But the court found Wolkoff's conduct, both during the whitewashing and on the witness stand, problematic.
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Whitewashing is prevalent in all other kinds of media, too, but it's more ambiguous in games.
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The whitewashing of movements like #MeToo makes black women hesitant about recounting their stories of assault.
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There are two major tenets to the whitewashing of the Wehrmacht, one more reprehensible than the other.
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The history of progressivism is also one of whitewashing and misogyny, and it's still a problem today.
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But Nicki's admission speaks to a larger issue: the whitewashing of camp style and culture in general.
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It's whitewashing, plain and simple – swapping out a Japanese character and replacing her with a white one.
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On the other hand, the series, which leads with its Latinx cred, was immediately accused of whitewashing.
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The series' failure to acknowledge these questions is a form of whitewashing that's been pretty popular lately.
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DC Inks' Batman: Gotham High is slated to celebrate Selina Kyle's Latinx identity rather than whitewashing her.
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"I really hate, hate, hate that I am on that side of the whitewashing conversation," she said.
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Anti-Semitism is alive and well in Europe A multimillion-dollar Holocaust museum accused of whitewashing history.
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People on social media are slamming the upcoming "Cats" movie for "whitewashing" one of its lead actresses.
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On Instagram, the comments ranged from, "This is cool but the whitewashing ruins it," by user celina.
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This is not the first time that a publication would be accused of whitewashing a cover star.
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But the comedian and actress doesn't see anything funny about the injustice of whitewashing in movie casting.
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To further the conversation, someone decided to enact a conversation centered around two hashtags: #BoldCastingDecision and #Whitewashing.
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They accused the show of "whitewashing" after discovering the lack of nominations for artists in the genre.
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Templer's blog post was far from the first time anyone raised the issue of whitewashing in knitting.
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The show also offers plenty of older examples — the better to contextualize Hollywood's longstanding practice of whitewashing.
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But allowing our differences to isolate us into monocultural communities only hastens the whitewashing caused by gentrification.
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"The Story of China" is good entertainment, if you don't mind a little whitewashing of recent history.
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Said remake has drawn criticisms of whitewashing ever since Scarlett Johansson was cast as the lead character.
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Try Again: Tilda Swinton defended her casting as The Ancient One in Doctor Strange amidst backlash over whitewashing.
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In that case, the controversy arose not over whitewashing, but over the use of the white savior trope.
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However, there's nothing in its production history that would specifically suggest a proclivity for "whitewashing" this rescue story.
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I did know about the whitewashing controversy, but I was ready to give the movie a fair shot.
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Ghost in the Shell also received backlash for casting Scarlett Johansson, with the studio facing accusations of whitewashing.
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After news broke that he would be playing a Japanese-American character, many accused Hollywood executives of whitewashing.
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We talked about this whitewashing effect on the latest episode of The VICE Guide to Right Now Podcast.
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In some ways, it's true that the racism in these films is subtler than their predecessors' blatant whitewashing.
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In the same interview, Portman said she "felt terrible" about accusations of whitewashing in her upcoming film Annihilation.
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But at no point does anyone acknowledge that blackface/yellowface/whitewashing is actually an offensive thing that happens.
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"Therefore, any statement about the Advisory Board 'whitewashing' or 'cheerleading' for anyone lacks complete legitimacy," the board said.
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Ghost in the Shell fell victim almost immediately the the controversy surrounding the whitewashing of its central character.
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There's not a 'yes' or 'no' answer here The Great Wall's overseas success doesn't torpedo the whitewashing debate.
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If you feel like the conversation about Hollywood whitewashing isn't losing steam, that's because it isn't — and shouldn't.
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Many fans are disappointed by the latter, as they believe it's yet another example of Hollywood whitewashing roles.
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But the result is that the whitewashing goes well beyond casting, with the story itself becoming completely Americanized.
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He was a college student in Beijing in 1989 and witnessed the whitewashing that followed the Tiananmen protests.
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Brands and influencers go on to make money by parroting them anyway, effectively whitewashing or pinkwashing their origins.
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This is whitewashing of a blatantly illegal territory grab by Putin, one that almost no countries on Earth recognize.
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Time's Jeffrey Kluger congratulated modern audiences for seeing through The Civil War's "subtle whitewashing" the way 1990s audiences hadn't.
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Matt Damon is really bummed about all of these "whitewashing" accusations directed at his new film, The Great Wall.
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The movie, by the way, joined other whitewashing spectacles like The Great Wall in being critical and commercial flops.
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I'd much rather support my local Chinese restaurant than participate in cultural appropriation and whitewashing of perfectly good food.
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Yes, we are seeing a whitewashing and blurring of the lines between the extreme and mainstream right, for sure.
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Hollywood's twisted norms are being ripped apart, from habitually silenced sexual misconduct to blatant whitewashing and irresponsible racial representation.
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When the first still photo from the film showing Johansson appeared, the concerns over the film's whitewashing only intensified.
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Like the broader feminist movement from which it came, it's particularly susceptible to whitewashing and a lack of intersectionality.
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And Hollywood has gotten increasing flak for whitewashing, the practice of casting white actors in roles envisioned as Asian.
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People also used the meme generator to blast other examples of whitewashing, cultural appropriation and white saviors in Hollywood.
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Mr. Reich called it "sacrilege" to invoke figures or elements of the Holocaust while whitewashing over the troubling parts.
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Her stint as an Italian, in retrospect, feels not only laughable, but like a case of classic Hollywood whitewashing.
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She also admired the filmmakers for not whitewashing the role of Rachel, which she said would have been sacrilegious.
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There's a growing public awareness about the lack of diverse representation in media, and the whitewashing of popular culture.
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The erasure and whitewashing of characters of color, particularly Asian ones, in TV and film is a long-standing problem.
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Whitewashing is a term to describe casting white actors in roles that were originally written to be characters of color.
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The film has been heavily criticized for whitewashing – casting a white woman to play a character who was originally Japanese.
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Look no further than the diversity of the Emmys compared to the giant controversy surrounding the whitewashing of the Oscars.
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" Yahoo also asked Jennifer Jason Leigh about her thoughts on whitewashing, to which she responded, "It's probably a valid criticism.
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Check out the inspiration and the Wikihow adjustment:It appears that Wikihow removed the illustration after tweets calling out the whitewashing.
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Given the whitewashing controversies and other questionable casting decisions in previous Disney remakes, fans have a reason to be nervous.
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It is not about forgetting our past; it is about undoing the whitewashing done by those who came before us.
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"One of the things that I found, coming up, was that I didn't see us," she says of Hollywood's whitewashing.
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But titles like Death Note and Ghost in the Shell have been riddled with controversy over filmmakers whitewashing the characters.
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Hayward's character, Victoria, is a kitten with white fur, but many felt that the film was still whitewashing her portrayal.
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The student campaigners responded that invoking the scholarships was "a justification for the continued whitewashing of Rhodes' violent, destructive legacy".
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Whitewashing Asian roles in film is unfortunately nothing new (see Avatar, or even more recently, Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange).
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Osaka, who is currently playing in the Australian Open, was asked in a press conference today about the whitewashing controversy.
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Two foreign diplomats quit one panel, saying they did not want to take part in a whitewashing of serious crimes.
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It's not whitewashing the issue, as his administration has done by removing mention of the term "climate change" wherever possible.
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Though this thoughtless comment allegedly occurred 26 years ago, Hollywood has had its share of whitewashing issues in recent years.
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Saying that Hitler "didn't sink to the level" of Assad is a form of whitewashing Hitler's crimes against the Jews.
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After the casting was announced, some people accused the film of "whitewashing" Villechaize, whom many believe to be of Filipino descent.
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Real Talk: Fans are calling on Disney to cast Asian actors in its live-action version of Mulan, rather than whitewashing.
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Annihilation, a sci-fi film based on novels by Jeff VanderMeer, is under fire for whitewashing two of its main characters.
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Diplomatic fallout from the Holocaust law, which America and Israel see as whitewashing the role some Poles played, has been disastrous.
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Strange received appropriate flack for whitewashing Asian characters and lore for the story, and tragically sidelines Rachel McAdams in every way.
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It's a case of whitewashing even more egregious than Emma Stone's in Aloha (an entirely fictional story written by Cameron Crowe).
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Whitewashing in Hollywood has been at the forefront of our television and movie coverage for awhile now, as it should be.
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But that aesthetic also led some to criticize Cuphead and Studio MDHR for whitewashing the racist history of Fleischer-style art.
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Let's get something out of the way: casting Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell is a classic example of whitewashing.
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Johansson was supposed to serve this function for Ghost in the Shell — though the movie ultimately bombed following intense whitewashing controversy.
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If this casting rumor is confirmed, which right now it has not been, it's just another example of whitewashing in Hollywood.
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Scarlett Johansson helms the controversial Ghost in the Shell as The Major, leading to accusations of Hollywood whitewashing the Japanese property.
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The essay was criticized by several outlets, including The New Republic, for multiple factual inaccuracies and whitewashing the allegations against Ghomeshi.
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When Soviet artists toured America during the Cold War, were they thawing a conflict, or were they whitewashing human-rights violations?
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The result is a movie that employs the same tired excuses for its whitewashing, and with little to show for it.
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"I felt like by the third interview, it was obvious the investigator was whitewashing it for Seacrest's side," Hardy said. E!
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It looks like Hollywood is still in the "adding to the list" stage of its long history of whitewashing on film.
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The whitewashing was unintentional, a Nissin spokesperson told MUNCHIES over email, and the original drawings were shared with Osaka's management team.
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After whitewashing Ms. Tolstedt's departure, taking this corrective action — or explaining why it is unwarranted — would help restore the board's credibility.
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That work, which focused on Mao's relationships with women, was criticized in Hong Kong for whitewashing the brutality of his rule.
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To many in China, where audiences are accustomed to seeing Chinese stars on screen, the concept of whitewashing was completely foreign.
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How did you feel about that whitewashing then and about the new show's casting of the black actress Jodie Turner-Smith?
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That came in a 4-minute-6-second whitewashing of Groupama Team France, which was eliminated with one race to sail.
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Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups have long accused the military of whitewashing criminal behavior and being incapable of investigating itself.
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Take, for instance, the whitewashing of one of Lewis' contemporaries: Martin Luther King Jr. In life, many white Americans hated King.
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Margaret Cho and Tilda Swinton traded emails about "whitewashing," a term for Hollywood's tendency to fill Asian roles with white actors.
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What risks do we run of whitewashing history when we aestheticize reactionary politics and the myth of the male "artist-genius"?
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But the Australian theatre industry isn't alone, and the Gold Coast-based company isn't the first accused of whitewashing In the Heights.
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We have to honor these warriors because they have been at the forefront of the LGBTQ movement, despite the whitewashing of history.
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Monday's apology came after Twitter users had dragged the company for hours over what they saw as the whitewashing of its marketing.
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Then came the rumors of an awful thing: the potential whitewashing of the new Mulan cast — or at least its male lead.
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An American Women's History Museum would be an opportunity to upend the colonialist framework and literal whitewashing typical of many national institutions.
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What is seen by some as economic development in the city's fastest growing borough is seen by others as whitewashing and gentrification.
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Is it still whitewashing, for example, if the film is a co-produced by China and helmed by a legendary Chinese director?
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Just ahead of The Great Wall's debut in China, Matt Damon is again defending the action-adventure film against claims of whitewashing.
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And that whitewashing machine isn't limited just to folks like Rasky, who's now taking his talents to Biden's push for the presidency.
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Mr. Yu said that he had been motivated after Asian-Americans were left out of #OscarsSoWhite, another campaign against whitewashing in Hollywood.
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The San Francisco 49ers have lost 13 straight since opening the season with a 28-0 whitewashing of the Los Angeles Rams.
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" The report said U.S. politicians are "whitewashing violence as a struggle for democracy and deliberately misinterpreting the work of Hong Kong police.
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I don't think it's possible for anyone to provide an expansive, thorough, and nuanced answer about whitewashing in Hollywood in four minutes.
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Nearly half of East and Southeast Asians are actually born with double eyelids, so wanting them doesn't exactly equal whitewashing your appearance.
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TOTAL RECALL Quiz time Actress Emma Stone yelled out this when Sandra Oh made a joke about "whitewashing" at the Golden Globes.
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As New York continues to develop and gentrify, issues of displacement and the whitewashing of history and culture are becoming increasingly problematic.
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But according to recent reporting, he carried on another professional hobby: whitewashing nefarious foreign figures and shilling on behalf of foreign interests.
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While some British designers fight against the country's climate by whitewashing walls and installing abundant lighting, Toogood, like Atalla, embraces its dreariness.
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Airspace, at its most sinister, has effectively flattened local variety, and come to be seen as the aesthetic of gentrification and whitewashing.
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My conscience does not let me to be part of the MINCULT's transformation of the Havana Biennial into an act of whitewashing.
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"Whitewashing such barbarity will of course injure and wound the conscience of all humanity," he said in translated comments to lawmakers in Ankara.
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For all of our 21st-century progress in terms of visual technology, we're stuck in a present with the disappointing problem of whitewashing.
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Beyond using the memes to bash Ghost in the Shell, people are also using it highlight other recent examples of whitewashing in Hollywood.
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From whitewashing to "Asian accents" there is a long way to go, as Penn remarks in a follow-up interview to his tweets.
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There's Ghost in the Shell, Netflix's Iron Fist, and The Great Wall (although the latter is a bit more white savior than whitewashing).
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If you were expecting a more Western-flavored movie following the accusations of whitewashing that surrounded Johansson's casting, this trailer may surprise you.
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The whole exercise amounts to a kind of critical Stalinism, a relentless whitewashing of their own past in order to uphold their authority.
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The Matrix movies — the sequels, in particular — are what you get when Hollywood appropriates in ways that are more imaginative than whitewashing characters.
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Related: #ExpressiveAsians hashtag used to fire back at Hollywood whitewashing Alex Garland, the film's director, defended the casting in a statement to Deadline.
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Separately, "The Ottoman Lieutenant," a new film backed by Turkish investors, has been pilloried by critics for whitewashing Turkish actions in the genocide.
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Most of the resistance comes from the accusation that the casting decision is another case of whitewashing in the film and TV industry.
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Pushing for a House vote on anti-Semitism really did feel like unfairly singling out Omar — and whitewashing the GOP's record in the process.
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Yet even discounting the whitewashing controversy over Scarlett Johansson's casting, the remake looks limp and textureless next to the iconic images of the original.
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Stanfield, who played Snoop Dogg in Straight Outta Compton and Logan King in Jordan Peele's Get Out, defends the film against allegations of whitewashing.
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" He added, "In a legitimate reputation clean-up campaign, you focus on rehabilitating a reputation, not just whitewashing the internet with fake, positive content.
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Update: Natalie Portman has responded to claims that her casting in the sci-fi film Annihilation is yet another example of whitewashing in Hollywood.
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A conversation around whitewashing has been ongoing since Scarlett Johansson was announced as the lead—Major, a cyborg with a human mind and soul.
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The statue, which features Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as leaders of the movement, has been accused of racism and whitewashing history.
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After a trailer for the film was released earlier this year, many anime fans called it an example of "whitewashing" the original Japanese property.
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"I've learned on a macro level about the insane history of whitewashing in Hollywood and how prevalent the problem truly is," Stone told News.com.
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Now the original director of the anime movie, Mamoru Oshii, has come forward to say he also doesn't believe the upcoming adaptation is whitewashing.
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New Netflix series Iron Fist has similarly been accused of whitewashing, and in an interview with Inverse, director Roy Thomas made things even worse.
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It doesn't help that Gods of Egypt has been dogged for months by negative press, primarily due to the perceived "whitewashing" of its cast.
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"I think that's people [getting] a little too precious [with the whitewashing controversy], because originally the character was written white," Wu told the site.
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In order to boost the credibility of the FBI's investigations of the Trump team, much of the media is whitewashing the bureau's entire history.
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The issue has crystallized in a word — "whitewashing" — that calls out Hollywood for taking Asian roles and stories and filling them with white actors.
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"I've learned on a macro level about the insane history of whitewashing in Hollywood and how prevalent the problem truly is," Stone reportedly said.
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Not to say that Pitt isn't sometimes on his guard when it comes to discussing touchy subjects like income inequality and whitewashing in Hollywood.
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The corruption strategy involves enticing, duping, bribing or recruiting political activists, lobbyists, journalists and academics to promulgate Moscow's conspiracy theories or whitewashing its policies.
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Whitewashing is a problem that plagues Hollywood all too often, and it's fair to be concerned the new Aladdin would fall victim to it.
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Some commentators like Piers Morgan have argued that this statement makes Ali more racist than Trump, but that is a typical whitewashing of history.
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To cover start-up and logistics costs, Mr. Choi raised money selling T-shirts he designed that were inspired by the Hollywood whitewashing controversies.
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On four, Duane Hanson's hyper-realistic "Housepainter II" starts things off — a sculpture of a black man who is whitewashing a light brown wall.
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It's part of a broad-based Russian propaganda effort aimed at whitewashing Putin's government, using attacks on alleged US misdeeds as a key strategy.
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The messaging efforts have been derided by lawyers representing family members of 9/11 victims, who accuse Riyadh of "whitewashing" history with its messaging.
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The Beyoncé wax-statue kerfuffle is far from the first time that representations or images of Beyoncé have come under fire for apparent whitewashing.
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Yes, there was a whitewashing controversy regarding the casting of Finn Jones as Danny Rand, but that wasn't a reason Iron Fist was awful.
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" Weems says their decision to maintain the sign in its vandalized form lies in the fact that, "It would be whitewashing to just replace it.
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There are a multitude of legitimate reasons that people are pissed off about Johansson taking the starring role, and the persistence of whitewashing in Hollywood.
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But whether or not whitewashing is ultimately part of the Pure Flix project, Chu's comments did attract attention to Ivanhoe Pictures's version of the story.
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But Clavon felt O'Rourke was "whitewashing" issues like education, health care, and criminal justice in a way she thought minimized the realities of black voters.
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"I felt like by the third interview [with the independent investigator], it was obvious the investigator was whitewashing it for Seacrest's side," she told Variety.
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The students say that a mandatory humanities course dubbed "Hum 110" focuses overtly on European thought leaders, leading to "whitewashing" of the students&apos education.
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"I've learned on a macro level about the insane history of whitewashing in Hollywood and how prevalent the problem truly is," Stone said in 2015.
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Graffiti artists already faced hefty fines and possible jail terms for vandalism and now house owners flouting the rules will have to pay for whitewashing.
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The National Association of Black Journalists is accusing NBC of "whitewashing" after the network announced Wednesday that longtime anchor Tamron Hall is leaving the network.
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Ang, who is Asian, posted a photo of herself on Instagram wearing a shirt that calls out almost every one of these instances of whitewashing.
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The trailer unleashed a new round of outrage on social media about whitewashing, in which white actors are cast to portray characters of other ethnicities.
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"Rather than wait for the court's opinion, Wolkoff destroyed almost all of the plaintiffs' paintings by whitewashing them during that eight-day interim," Block said.
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The discussion comes at a time of increased criticism of Hollywood for "whitewashing" or casting white actors in roles where the characters are another race.
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House Republicans fired shots at the Michigan freshman and her party defenders, accusing Democrats of whitewashing sentiments that GOP lawmakers have portrayed as anti-Semitic.
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But some have been questioning whether Swinton's casting is just another example of Hollywood whitewashing, since in the comic, Ancient One is of Tibetan descent.
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The diverse crowd was distinctly against Giuliani's relentless whitewashing of the city, and the result recaptured rock's rebellious spirit, until the party ended in 2001.
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Since the debate over whitewashing broke out, those looking for more representation of Asian-Americans in movies have had to settle for justice via meme.
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In a year in which the N.F.L.'s bumbling relationship to race has been at its most visible, this whitewashing has a particularly acrid smell.
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The streaming giant's new series, Legend of the Monkey, has been accused of whitewashing after it was revealed to have a distinctly non-Chinese cast.
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And as long as Japanese leaders insist on whitewashing their country's recent past they will never persuade other countries in the region to trust them.
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Mi conciencia no me deja ser parte del espectacular proceso de whitewashing en el que ha convertido en MINCULT a La Bienal de La Habana.
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But having conversations about whitewashing and how problematic it is really is a great thing, even if the tone of this particular exchange wasn't entirely positive.
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But Trump is whitewashing the collusion-related evidence that Mueller documented in Volume I. The special counsel found "multiple links" between Trump's campaign and Russian agents.
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It shows white women, and just one woman of color, talking about "hair hate" and how Shea is their go-to product — prompting cries of whitewashing.
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I recently sat down with Stanfield to hear about his take on the film, his appreciation for Death Note and Japanese culture, and the whitewashing controversy.
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" Commenting on English reports of the movie's "whitewashing", another user disagreed, saying: "Zhang Yimou's goal is to make an epic that appeals to an international audience.
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While Fiennes is correct about the shade of Jackson's skin color, his comments don't reflect that he fully understands the concern that surrounds whitewashing Jackson's story.
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Hopefully, the more people discuss issues of whitewashing, the more people of color will be able to actually portray roles originally designed with them in mind.
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I've been annoyed by this centering of white narratives for many years, and there's the context of Hollywood being a racist industry with whitewashing as well.
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"My biggest challenge of this interview was to explain what whitewashing [is], because it's not something Japanese people usually think about," he says in the introduction.
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This isn't a whitewashing of gun violence; on the contrary, it puts everything gun violence threatens to destroy front and center, making it impossible to ignore.
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Though Portman said she only became aware of her character's race in the source material earlier this week, she acknowledged the problem of whitewashing in Hollywood.
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" And this month, the director of "Doctor Strange," Scott Derrickson, tweeted, "Raw anger/hurt from Asian-Americans over Hollywood whitewashing, stereotyping & erasure of Asians in cinema.
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"Sadly, certain works available through your network are hugely inaccurate — and to an extent obfuscating historical facts and whitewashing actual perpetrators of these crimes," he wrote.
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Damon's disappointment lies in the whitewashing and white savior criticism that was thrown at The Great Wall this summer when its teaser trailer hit the internet.
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This is a stark contrast to Ghost in the Shell, for example, which received criticism for inauthenticity beyond the cardinal sin of whitewashing its source material.
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"It didn't surprise me," said Constance Wu, the Chinese-American actress who ultimately secured the role and who has been a vocal critic of Hollywood whitewashing.
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They have not watched "Pocahontas" yet because the movie's whitewashing of American history is too much for me — and, thankfully, the movie has not been requested.
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As someone who was often teased by peers for her lighter complexion, Ms. Nordlum sees her tattoos as a counter to the whitewashing of native life.
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Many see Damon's new movie, an American/Chinese coproduction in which he is the lead and surrounded by Asian actors, as Hollywood's latest example of whitewashing.
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An oft-cited justification for such whitewashing is that those roles go to big-name (white) actors, who in turn attract bigger audiences to the movie.
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Similarly, the Netflix film Death Note, also based on a Japanese manga series, drew criticism for whitewashing as it cast white actor Nat Wolff in the lead.
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After Netflix released the first trailer for Death Note earlier this year, Twitter erupted into furious debate over whether the project was another case of Hollywood whitewashing.
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Both Hollywood and our history books have a long, ugly tradition of whitewashing, which makes your dedication to inclusive storytelling and diverse casting feel even more urgent.
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Unfortunately, in a late-film twist, Ghost in the Shell actually doubles down on the whitewashing in a way that I can't reveal here without spoiling things.
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His legacy has inspired people around the world to fight for equality — but that hyper-visibility has also led to the whitewashing and sanitization of his life.
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Worse, by citing data going back to 1820, he sees them as whitewashing the violence of colonialism, casting recent world history as a narrative of nonstop progress.
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Calls of whitewashing have dogged Netflix's adaptation of Death Note, Marvel's Doctor Strange, and Aloha, in which Emma Stone plays a quarter-Chinese and quarter-Hawaiian character.
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Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in New York City has restyled its new wax figure of Beyoncé after facing accusations of whitewashing in its depiction of the megastar.
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He said Airbnb's announcement that it would take no profits from its activities in the West Bank "is nothing but a shameful attempt at whitewashing their complicity".
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Yet Klein botches his analysis of both Buchanan and President Donald Trump by whitewashing Buchanan's bigotry, presenting it as a form of trolling designed to enrage liberals.
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The film industry has been repeatedly called out in the media, and by some of its own, for its whitewashing on-screen and sexism behind the camera.
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Ms. Swinton's version is Celtic, and the change was one of a number of developments that led to renewed controversy over Hollywood's whitewashing of Asian characters. 10.
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The documentary certainly isn't a whitewashing, devoting considerable time to the Keating Five scandal, which threatened McCain's Senate career and informed his push for campaign-finance reform.
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Carolyn Finney has asserted in the book "Black Faces, White Spaces" that the notion of black people being aliens in the outdoors is a "whitewashing" of history.
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This kind of whitewashing, so common in the South, is what artist and community activist DeWayne Barton is trying to combat with his local tours, Hood Huggers.
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An Australian production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical In the Heights has been cancelled, after severe backlash over the company's whitewashing of a cast of Latinx characters.
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Since then, fans have been calling out the studio behind the movie for whitewashing one of its few princesses of color: Tiana from The Princess and the Frog.
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"In a legitimate reputation clean-up campaign, you focus on rehabilitating a reputation, not just whitewashing the internet with fake, positive content," Beal previously said of that campaign.
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It's like the directors heard the whitewashing criticism and thought this was a clever way around it — but this seems worse than just always having her be white.
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Without knowing exactly how the app was developed, Russell says it's impossible to determine why it had such a strong whitewashing effect, but there are a few possibilities.
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This week, whitewashing ancient history, Alice Neel's Indian-American portrait, taking an online architecture course at Harvard, the birth of global tourism, street libraries and neoliberalism, and more.
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She has no interest in seeing Adam Wingard's version of Death Note when it drops on Netflix next month — and not because of the whitewashing allegations against it.
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In it, he asks young Japanese adults on the street what they think of the casting, and what they make of the outcry over whitewashing in the States.
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Washing his hand of it A white actor set to appear in the next "Hellboy" movie quits after he finds out he would be whitewashing an Asian character.
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Her casting adds a welcome bit of much-needed diversity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but in some ways it only highlights the studio's other problems with whitewashing.
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In contrast to "yellowface," which protested the practice of white actors using makeup and prosthetics to play Asians, "whitewashing" gives voice to the near-absence of prominent roles.
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When Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych needed assistance whitewashing his thugocracy, and keeping questions of his spiraling wealth as Ukraine's new president at bay, he turned to a familiar face.
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Her comeback suffered a major setback with Susan Sontag's 1975 essay "Fascinating Fascism" — which eviscerated the artist's whitewashing of her past — but Riefenstahl was embraced by many cinéastes.
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Athena Brenner from Wilmington, N.C., said, yes: Seeing as how the Oscars went last year, it would seem as though Hollywood is very much whitewashing the film industry.
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She reached out to "her old friend Joseph Kennedy," who asked Edward Kennedy, a war correspondent for The Associated Press, to write a sympathetic piece whitewashing her behavior.
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A lighthearted Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. presided over the case, brought by several boys, played by actors, who had come to regret whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence.
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Better yet, you might learn that the only thing you lose by whitewashing Hollywood and history is the chance to tell compelling stories that many audiences haven't seen before.
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Meanwhile, the upcoming Dr. Strange flick has been criticized for whitewashing a character called the Ancient One, who is historically Asian but will be played onscreen by Tilda Swinton.
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"The whitewashing of history that happens in white supremacy does three very dangerous things in creating a false sense of people's own worth, value, and accomplishments," Herukhuti told Vox.
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But while the live-action Aladdin does succeed in rectifying some aspects of Hollywood's long history of stereotyping and whitewashing Middle Easterners, it still leaves much to be desired.
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Yes, that seems like an easy feat, but with the whitewashing that goes on in Hollywood it's enough to make some people happy or at least not completely disappointed.
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But now that Kanders is out, some prominent voices in the art world are whitewashing the significance of the victory, limiting the sense of possibility that has opened up.
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"From the whitewashing of Latinx characters to the Anglicization of Latinx actors who changed their surnames, Hollywood has not historically promoted Latinx-centered storytelling and casting," Dr. Ward says.
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Anyone interested in artists who rejected convention, especially when it came to the whitewashing of myths, should stop by the group show Mythologies at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects.
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"The election was a whitewashing effort for the military to stay in power so that they can tell the international community that they are an elected government," he said.
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Which brings us to one of the major issues surrounding the film: the "whitewashing" of the main character, a Japanese android in the original movie and the manga comic.
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Muslim grievance professionals and well-intentioned liberals whitewashing the aspects of the Qur'an that conflict with the values of American society in the 21st Century do us no favors.
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Modern America's treatment of immigrants is reflected in An American Tail: from the pressure to assimilate, to the whitewashing, to the outright violence—often committed by our own government.
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"Where I came down is if people see this movie [and still believe] there's whitewashing involved in it, I will listen to that with my whole heart." he said.
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A graffiti removal effort in Chicago appeared to go overboard in May, whitewashing a mural that had been up in the city's Hermosa neighborhood for more than 25 years.
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"I don't think they did it on purpose to be whitewashing, but I think the next time they portray me or something, they should talk to me about it."
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Not only does it tackle the ongoing problem of whitewashing in Hollywood, it highlights just how easy it would be to cast more Asian-American actors in leading roles.
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Aside from stereotypes and a lack of viable roles, Hollywood is notorious for whitewashing from the inception of film to modern day, especially when it comes to Asian narratives.
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" Johansson defended herself against cries of whitewashing in an interview with Marie Claire in 2017, saying that "I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person.
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The same goes for whitewashing, exemplified by Johansson and peers like Emma Stone, who controversially played a part-Chinese, part-Hawaiian woman in the 2015 box office bomb Aloha.
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As we leave them to grapple with a traumatic past and an uncertain future, we owe them an honest assessment of this historic moment — not a whitewashing of failure.
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Enough of whitewashing this under the "I voted for Donald Trump because he talked about jobs," while children are being separated from their parents under his vile immigration policy.
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That evolved into Samberg's newfound understanding about "whitewashing" in Hollywood, a term that usually refers to white actors being given a part initially written for a person of color.
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"This is an awkward problem for me, because I think whitewashing is a serious and real issue, and I fully support the groups drawing attention to it," Garland said.
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Mr. Moreno used to write letters and opinion pieces for local newspapers, often criticizing how Spain was whitewashing the Franco era, the most painful chapter in its modern history.
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Now critics have chimed in, and it's not just the whitewashing allegations they see as a problem for the movie, which currently has a 38% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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On the heels of the streaming giant facing charges of "whitewashing" by casting a white actor to play a martial arts expert in "Iron Fist," a new controversy has emerged.
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The filmmakers were accused of whitewashing the original story line; some critics even alleged that Johansson's on-screen image was doctored with CGI to make her appear more ethnically Asian.
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Before Oh took a pause to appreciate the rare moment of representation in the room, there was a brief bit where Samberg joked about whitewashing her words on the teleprompter.
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Then after it was announced that Tilda Swinton would play the Ancient One in Doctor Strange, backlash over Hollywood whitewashing continued to mount, culminating in a lively #whitewashedOUT movement online.
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Its Kindle Direct Publishing service would add an automatic, opt-out film or TV license — including the option for specific stipulations, like no R-rated adaptations or no character whitewashing.
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The upcoming film's been dogged by criticisms of whitewashing ever since it was announced Scarlett Johansson would play the lead role of Major Motoko Kusanagi — a clearly very Japanese character.
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Stories reporting on the tweet referred to Wu as "slamming" Damon, thus diluting a valid point about racism in Hollywood into a nonsensical she-said-he-said fight about whitewashing.
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There are far more nuanced versions of it and I do try to be sensitive to that, but Pedro Pascal called me and goes, 'Yeah, we are guilty of whitewashing.
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People on social media are accusing the upcoming "Cats" movie of whitewashing one of its lead actresses, the Kenyan-born Francesca Hayward, after the movie trailer was released on Thursday.
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Hardy has said that the investigator was "whitewashing" the probe to the benefit of Seacrest and said the investigator never reached out to the witnesses she had referred him to.
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" This was no whitewashing â€" in the tribute, both Lucas and Lourd emphasized Fisher's ability to tell the hard truths and to look unflinchingly at her own dark side.
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One need only look back at the whitewashing of M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender in 73 to see how Hollywood views stories that have an Asian origin or location.
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He's like Tom Sawyer tricking people into whitewashing the fence — only in this case, the fence is your time, your money, your moral code, and sometimes even your physical safety.
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There are plenty of modern examples of whitewashing, like Jake Gyllenhaal playing the lead in Prince of Persia and Emma Stone playing a part-Chinese pilot in Cameron Crowe's Aloha.
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Whitewashing — the act of casting white characters to play people of color — is a practice wherein people still don't seem to fully understand the magnitude of the message it sends.
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The ethics and alleged "whitewashing" involved in the oil magnate's funding of the exhibition was at the heart of the controversy surrounding the launch of the exhibition in early November.
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Earlier in the year, Jean-Raymond, 32, launched an ongoing series of clothing collections called American, Also, through which he takes a closer look at the whitewashing of American history.
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For the current moment, in which whitewashing still extinguishes opportunity and supports the status quo — despite gains both on the screen and in writers' rooms — Yu's novel may seem topical.
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The only choice allowed for my mixed European heritage is "white," but checking it feels like a betrayal of my ancestors and a forced whitewashing of this country's true microdiversity.
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Some critics, judging the film by its trailers, accused Mr. Zhang of giving Mr. Damon a part that should have gone to an Asian actor, a practice known as whitewashing.
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Liz Wahl is a former journalist for RT who quit on air, accusing the network of "whitewashing the actions of Putin" in its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Mr. Wolkoff said he had chosen a stealth whitewashing option to avoid further confrontations and to spare everyone — himself included — the pain of seeing the painted walls being pulled down.
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But critics on Twitter took issue with CNN's story, accusing the network of glossing over North Korea and the Kim family's brutal human rights record and "whitewashing" the government's atrocities.
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Several of the company's movies had been critical and commercial debacles, including "The Divergent Series: Allegiant" and "Gods of Egypt," which also embroiled Lionsgate in a humiliating whitewashing casting controversy.
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The principles aren't new—this is, after all, a country that became a superpower using centuries of free and cheap Black labor—there's just a new mechanism for the Whitewashing.
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And while the whitewashing and gentrification many Austinites take issue with may be true, what we are seeing now is an Austin that more than anything is simply growing up.
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" Suffragette has been criticized for "whitewashing" the British suffragette movement, and for an ill-conceived photo shoot with the leads wearing shirts reading, "I'd rather be a rebel than a slave.
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The editorial, then titled "Removing statues of historical figures risks whitewashing history," originally argued that "Instead of removing painful reminders, perhaps these should be supplemented" with plaques explaining the fraught history.
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Between the thorough whitewashing of "squad" and this administration's insistence that women's voices don't belong in decisions about our bodies, there's never been a better time to get a little witchy.
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Considering the whitewashing that often occurs around the ongoing history of AIDS/HIV, Rigg's documentation of groups like Minority Task Force on AIDS and Gay Men of African Decent remain vital.
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Hollywood is awash with whitewashing, but movies like Crazy Rich Asians and the live-action remake of Mulan, set for release in 2020, are opportunities for representation in high-grossing films.
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Allegations of whitewashing dogged the film from the start; some fans derided the casting of Scarlett Johansson, who plays 'The Major', a cyborg who leads a counter-cyber intelligence task force.
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The abolitionist and women's rights activist will join Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the proposed Central Park sculpture that had previously been accused of racism and whitewashing history.
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BDS has called on artists, music fans and broadcasters to avoid the 2019 contest, arguing that it amounts to "whitewashing" Israel's policies towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
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In a new post on his LiveJournal, he commends the production for correcting a longstanding complaint he had with the art for his novella, and the story's 1987 film adaptation — whitewashing.
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For months, critics have accused the statue of whitewashing the fight for women's suffrage by visually suggesting the dominance of white women in the movement while largely ignoring their Black counterparts.
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Recent debate about Hollywood whitewashing has sparked conversation on how difficult it is for Asian performers to land a role free of stereotypes—never mind a leading role in a blockbuster.
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These years are far from the first whitewashing in Oscars history: no actors from ethnic minorities were nominated in 6003 or 1997, or in an extraordinary streak between 1975 and 1980.
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The National Association of Black Journalists is slamming NBC for Tamron Hall's abrupt departure on Wednesday, accusing the network of "whitewashing" to make way for Fox News star Megyn Kelly's arrival.
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If Adelstein and company avoid a similar whitewashing controversy, there's still a minefield of technical challenges that come from adapting anime to live action, and a series into a single film.
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" Much of the current whitewashing, Ms. Yuen said, stems from manga and Marvel films that "draw from these Orientalist tropes, whether it's Asians in the past or Asia in the future.
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Baby Phat's legacy of being a trailblazing clothing line in Black culture doesn't necessarily fit with Forever 21's mainstream appeal, and the collaboration could potentially lead to Baby Phat's whitewashing.
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The verb's new meaning was a response to a particularly cruel form of terror: Those in power were eliminating anyone they considered a threat while whitewashing their responsibility for the persecutions.
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The series has already had at least one controversial adaptation; the 2017 film Ghost in the Shell was blasted by critics for whitewashing Major by casting Scarlett Johansson in the role.
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Ms. Cho tries to educate her colleague on a deeply personal issue: The larger part of the debate has to do with the 'whitewashing' of Asian and Asian Americans in film.
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But it can also refer to efforts to cater to Chinese audiences by dropping Asian actors into roles not meaningful to the plot — a form of "reverse whitewashing," if you will.
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Allegations of whitewashing dogged the film from the start; some fans derided the casting of Scarlett Johansson, who plays 'The Major', a cyborg who leads a counter-cyber intelligence task force.
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Then there's his famous 2008 mural One Nation Under CCTV, which depicted a hooded graffiti artist whitewashing the piece's title onto a wall as he's filmed by a uniformed police officer.
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Skrein joined the project just last week, but the decision to cast him as Daimio, a Japanese-American character in the comic books, was quickly met with backlash and accusations of whitewashing.
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Rather than "giving voice" and whitewashing collective experiences of otherness, BB10 enters into a discourse of non-complacency, reframing historical patterns of colonialism with urgent, intersectional issues, firmly rooted in the present.
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Sometimes it's "whitewashing" — casting a white actor to play a character who was originally conceived of as non-white, like the Major in Ghost in the Shell or Light in Death Note.
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My love for Girls, especially as a Black woman, comes as an irony to some, given that the show has been critiqued for its lack of diversity and serious whitewashing of Brooklyn.
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The big new release of last week was Ghost in the Shell, and Tim and Will actively disagree on it, though neither can dispute that critics of its "whitewashing" have a point.
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"The sloppy, half-hearted nature of the whitewashing left the works easily visible under thin layers of cheap, white paint, reminding the plaintiffs on a daily basis what had happened," he added.
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Whitewashing, the petition argues, makes it "far more difficult for countless children around the world to see themselves in the stories they love and think that they, too, can make a difference."
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In preparation for the inauguration of the itineraries in late May, for example, a group of dedicated residents spruced up the streets, whitewashing graffiti, burying open cable lines and fixing town signs.
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Directors sometimes defend whitewashing by claiming they need A-list actors on board in order to get big projects made, and there simply aren't any Asian A-list actors to choose from.
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"We can't enable the Saudi government to turn it into a kangaroo court that conveniently finds a bunch of people guilty while whitewashing the possible responsibility of top Saudi officials," he said.
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However, the pushback against the whitewashing or makeover of her image by Nissin, one of the world's largest instant-noodle companies, has generated public discussion about why such a thing was done.
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The problem, Loewen argued, was our impulse to turn historical events and figures into "moral examples," which usually involved whitewashing the past in order to reinforce a familiar story about American greatness.
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CRAZY RICH ASIANS After several whitewashing controversies and criticism of a lack of roles for Asian stars, anticipation is high for a Hollywood movie that puts an Asian story front and center.
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But Netanyahu has also faced criticism in Israel over what some see as a bid to win allies in central Europe at the expense of revising Holocaust history and whitewashing anti-Semitism.
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Iron Fist remains an outlier; many were so put off by the premise and its problematic whitewashing that they didn't even bother, or couldn't get on board with the character even after trying.
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A federal district court jury in Brooklyn ruled that 5Pointz developer Jerry Wolkoff broke the law when he organized the overnight whitewashing of artists' work at the former 5Pointz building in November 2013.
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His next White House run will require a whitewashing of his gun record, and what better way of doing it than by aligning himself with young gun control activists whose credibility is unimpeachable?
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In the last several months, social justice groups have called attention to the practice of whitewashing and demanded more accountability in Hollywood, which they rightly accuse of severely underrepresenting nonwhites in leading roles.
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It's this heightened vulnerability to violence — both racially and based on sexual orientation and gender identity — that makes it all the more important to avoid whitewashing the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
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Judge Frederic Block rejected a post-trial motion by property developer Jerry Wolkoff to dismiss his prior court ruling compensating the artists of 5Pointz for the whitewashing of their artwork in October 20183.
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For Dominicans, this whitewashing is due to the anti-blackness that has been an entrenched part of the country — and most countries in Latin America — since European colonizers brought slavery to the Americas.
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BDS has called on artists and broadcasters to withdraw, saying that holding it in Tel Aviv amounted to "artwashing - whitewashing through arts" Israel's policies towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
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Moreover, she rejects thoughts on the matter, whether the culprit is UKS, or her recent Afghanistan-set movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, which was taken to task for, among other missteps, whitewashing and brownface.
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What I've come to understand is that denying difference is a form of whitewashing over historic and current inequities that keep power and resources in the hands of those who already have it.
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USDA's recent whitewashing of Animal Welfare Act records and inspection reports effectively invalidated the laws of seven states that prohibit pet stores from sourcing dogs from breeders who violate the Animal Welfare Act.
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T.S. Eliot's rank anti-Semitism does not blind her to his poetic virtues; she praises Tolstoy's early novel "The Cossacks" despite its whitewashing of genocidal Cossack violence against Jews (Ozick's ancestors among them).
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Troubleshooting the flood may be further down the list when you're fighting and fearing for your life on the daily, and that the story overlooks this frank reality feels essentially like ironic whitewashing.
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"I thought our Thanksgiving had to do with the pilgrims and the Indians and all that stuff, which is a real whitewashing of a genocidal moment in our history," Ms. Haddad Tompkins said.
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La La Land, painted by its detractors as whitewashing pablum, was supposed to represent Donald Trump in this schematic; Moonlight, on the other side, was less Hillary Clinton than the legacy of Obama.
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Today's Eastern European states are, in their way, following in the Kremlin's footsteps by recasting Nazi collaborators as "fellow victims" and "freedom fighters," while whitewashing their anti-Semitism and participation in the Holocaust.
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Ben Daimio said it was the latest in a string of whitewashing incidents in Hollywood, where white actors have been cast to play characters who were originally written as Asian or Asian-American.
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It also offers a salve to the on-screen whitewashing of characters in other sci-fi and fantasy franchises, like the adaption of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea, which she was vocally displeased about.
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In addition to whitewashing the cast, Twitter users are complaining that the movie changed key plot points and made the main character a totally different person, consequently erasing the themes the manga series explored.
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However, similar to the controversy surrounding Ghost in the Shell, the casting for this particular live-action outing has been criticized since the male and female leads are both white, whitewashing the original characters.
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Related: Lakeith Stanfield explains why Netflix's new Death Note film isn't whitewashing Using an actor in a costume and then using motion capture on Willem Dafoe's face certainly helped with that feeling of physicality.
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The little restrictions I did encounter concerned the overall whitewashing of daily life typical for network TV (no swearing, no smoking, little alcohol) rather than, say, social satire — of which we sneaked in plenty.
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Even if it's an unintended consequence of Billboard's latest revision, after a stellar prior year for rap music, the whitewashing of American music tastes by its leading chart provider will be hard to ignore.
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Representation is not as cut-and-dry in Japan Whitewashing is very real, and the deficit of starring roles for Asians is one lane in the representation race that is stubbornly slow to advance.
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Since moving to Brooklyn last year, I can say that the borough has undergone quite a bit of whitewashing in real life thanks to gentrification, but the critiques of the show are not unfounded.
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More unforgivable than the waste of access is the whitewashing of Klinsmann's utter failure as coach of Bayern Munich in 2008-09, a stint between national team jobs that lasted less than a season.
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Matt Damon responded to the initial criticism saying that he wasn't whitewashing a role because it wasn't a role originally meant for an Asian actor — but that's not what people are accusing him of.
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The Strange series has had its whitewashing criticism and should be wary of cultural appropriation, but in the right hands – including Boyega's – this character could emerge and even take over for Strange one day.
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The film was to be directed by Rupert Sanders, who directed Johansson's much-maligned "Ghost in the Shell," an adaptation of a legendary Japanese manga that was widely condemned for whitewashing its main character.
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Since the day Scarlett Johansson was cast as Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg and lead character of Ghost in the Shell, the film has been criticized for its whitewashing and erasure of its Japanese roots.
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The international television hit "Fauda," a drama loosely focused on an Israeli undercover counterterrorist team, has been accused of whitewashing the plight of Palestinians in the occupied territories and romanticizing the Israeli security forces.
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An electronic Pan-Arabism, capable of infusing the Tunisian, Egyptian, and even Syrian underground cultures with a sort of united independence—in another way than through the prism of recovery or Western-style whitewashing.
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In the ensuing decades, several of these murals have been covered over or destroyed, either by short-sighted municipal authorities or creeping gentrification, literally whitewashing the narratives that had been written on the city's streets.
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It deconstructs the logistics of the attention economy in a way that calls into question how we perceive the narratives of those who have been forcibly displaced, albeit filtered by deceptive forms of Hollywood whitewashing.
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From Scarface (in which Al Pacino darken his skin to look Cuban) to Ghost In Shell (casting Scarlett Johansson to play a Japanese woman), the whitewashing blends with the colorism issue within the Latinx community.
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With the media aggregating the news, The Great Wall was becoming the symbol of all white savior films, and Damon was in a tricky position to respond to a vague mob's frustrations with Hollywood whitewashing.
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And as host of MTV's weekly series Decoded, she's paired her wit and comedic prowess to provide clarity on everything from whitewashing the Stonewall Riots in 1969 to myths about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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"I felt like by the third interview, it was obvious the investigator was whitewashing it for Seacrest's side," she told Variety, also saying the investigation didn't contact a number of alleged witnesses she had referred.
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The other two involved the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which wrote a report with Mr. Manafort's help that came to be seen as whitewashing the arrest and imprisonment of a Ukrainian politician.
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I have withheld my donations from the University of Maryland over their whitewashing of the history of our campus and the removal of [Harry] Byrd (the man who built the stadium) from our football stadium.
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The result was not just an embarrassing, tone-deaf loss of profit for the studio, where uproar about whitewashing and trans-erasure on social media added insult to the injury of a meager opening weekend.
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In fact, most of the original film's Puerto Rican characters were played by white actors, setting the stage for a slew of whitewashing controversies in stage productions across the globe in the decades that followed.
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Further, Bernardin's example illustrates exactly why many male fans' outrage over Star Wars' female leads, or the same fans' defense of whitewashing, seems so ridiculous: They have thousands of other "action figures" to play with.
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While many of the residents have been supportive of the effort, it has also stirred some backlash among activists who say it is a type of whitewashing of the poverty that prevails in those neighborhoods.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canadian Olympic cross-country skiing champion Beckie Scott accused the World Anti-Doping (WADA) of whitewashing her complaints of harassment and intimidation, saying on Thursday she was "extremely disappointed" in an independent report.
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"Those who ranted against the project as another case of Hollywood 'whitewashing' in which Matt Damon saves China from dragons may have to bite their tongue," wrote Maggie Lee, chief Asia film critic for Variety.
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You can point to examples in the past where nominees have shaded the truth, or worse, but it seems to me that Kavanaugh has taken that to a new level of whitewashing his past excessively.
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This huge plot twist is obviously an interesting character development for Rafael, but some fans have a big problem with the shocker — which, some viewers say, is an attempt to justify the whitewashing of Rafael's character.
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Jurickson Profar chipped in with a home run and five Oakland relievers combined for four innings of one-run support, helping the A's complete a four-game whitewashing of the Cardinals in the interleague season series.
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Accusations of whitewashing and cultural appropriation have dogged some recent adaptations, and the resulting works are often rejected by critics as confusing and uncommitted, and by fans as sloppy, compromised, and disrespectful to the original work.
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There's been outrage over the "whitewashing" of a Chinese movie with Damon, but it seems that the marketing within China features Damon as just one of five co-leads, with Andy Lau in the primary role.
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And I still don't actually buy the Ghost in the Shell whitewashing issue either, and I certainly don't buy into the cultural appropriation bullshit because that's saying that only Asians are allowed to do martial arts.
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He vigorously argues that there is a duty to debunk whitewashing about the Armenian genocide, British and French colonial massacres, Imperial Japan's sexual enslavement of women from Korea and other Asian nations, and the Srebrenica massacre.
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BDS has called on artists and broadcasters to withdraw from the event, arguing that holding it in Tel Aviv amounts to "artwashing - whitewashing through arts" Israel's policies towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
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It's been a year since Scarlett Johansson was cast as the lead role of Major Motoko Kusanagi (now simply called "Major"), a female Japanese "cyberbody," and the new photo reignited the controversy around whitewashing in Hollywood.
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Not long ago, City Center decided to refurbish the room, whitewashing it and refinishing the old wainscoting, so beforehand Mr. Otero-Pailos arranged to make latex casts of the woodwork, vents, electrical outlets and so on.
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The other two cases looked at Skadden Arps, which wrote a report with Mr. Manafort's participation that was widely seen as whitewashing the politically motivated arrest and imprisonment of Mr. Yanukovych's principal rival, Yulia V. Tymoshenko.
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In 2017, the film "Ghost In A Shell" ignited the discussion of "whitewashing" in Hollywood after actress Scarlett Johansson was cast as the lead in the live-action film version of the popular Japanese manga series.
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The movement sees Eurovision "as artwashing - whitewashing through arts" of what it calls Israel's decades-old regime of military occupation and colonialism, its co-founder Omar Barghouti told Reuters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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Fans were understandably rankled by Cowell's threat to create Korean pop music minus Koreans, seeing it as a deeply troubling whitewashing of the ethnic, cultural and linguistic milieu from which the K-Pop phenomenon has emerged.
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At the center of the block, she stitched "Imprisoned at Iolani Palace…we began the quilt here," positioning the quilt as a historical marker, one that pushes against whitewashing and preserves Hawaii's struggles under Queen Liliʻuokalani's terms.
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In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Game of Thrones favorite Peter Dinklage claims that there is no truth to the whitewashing claims plaguing his new HBO film about the life of Fantasy Island star Hervé Villechaize.
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Nnedi Okorafor's The Shadow Speaker was published 10 years ago, yet her viral tweet Tuesday about her experience getting it out to the world has prompted online discourse about whitewashing in books both from readers and illustrators.
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"NBC has been a leader for diversity in broadcasting, but recent reports that Hall and Roker will be replaced by former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly are being seen by industry professionals as whitewashing," the statement continues.
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When The Hollywood Reporter asked Swinton about the controversy at the New York screening of her latest film, A Bigger Splash, the actress tried to reassure fans that this was not a case of whitewashing Asian characters.
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They're also speaking to the power that comes from confronting the whitewashing of artisanal and craft cultures writ large, and how they're increasing awareness about African Americans' largely obscured history in Southern and Appalachian spirits-making culture.
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But Marvel's fanbase is already psyched on the new character—wasting no time in arguing about who should play the Muslim ambassador to the MCU, and warning producers not to make the mistake of whitewashing the role.
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The whitewashing of slavery-era relationships is all too common; so are bizarre historical fiction films that have tried to sell audiences on ridiculous relationships, like a black woman who falls in love with a Nazi (seriously!).
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Screenwriter C. Robert Cargill, in a fit of exasperation and indignation, responded to criticisms recently that his movie committed the age-old Hollywood tradition of whitewashing by casting Tilda Swinton in the role of the Ancient One.
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It often feels similar to movies like Driving Miss Daisy and others like it, which have more recently been criticized for whitewashing the true nature of racial tensions in America in favor of making audiences feel good.
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Some explained early positive reviews as a misplaced search for enlightenment by people who were all too eager to find an easy solution to #OscarsSoWhite and the whitewashing of Hollywood in general, at the cost of art.
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What distinguishes Skrein's decision to give up the role of Major Ben Daimio — who is Japanese-American in the Hellboy comics — is the fact that actors aren't typically the first ones held accountable in claims of whitewashing.
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The list goes on: Matt Damon is currently facing backlash about his role in the upcoming movie The Great Wall, a mashup genre film that has been criticized for whitewashing as well as employing a "white savior" narrative.
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"[There is] a strong sense of whitewashing and obstruction," Barak wrote on his Facebook page following reports that Mandelblit blocked the police from trying to speak to Shapiro and Kerry as part of one of the corruption probes.
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When Scarlett Johansson adorns Ghost In The Shell posters and Emma Stone plays an Asian character in Aloha, the release of a major all-Asian film feels like an antidote to the whitewashing that Hollywood is notorious for.
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Hollywood live-action remakes of anime properties like Ghost in the Shell and Death Note have been met with criticism and accusations of whitewashing in the past, so here's a fresh chance of getting it right this time.
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Adora (Patricia Clarkson) insists on whitewashing everything in "Sharp Objects" It's the latest adaptation of another bestseller from Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, brought to the screen by Emmy-award winning Big Little Lies director Jean-Marc Vallée.
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McCaul will join the ECB from Promontory Financial Group, a prominent U.S. consultancy firm which agreed to pay $15 million to New Yorks banking regulator in 2015 to settle accusations of whitewashing a report on Standard Chartered Bank.
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The film has been accused of whitewashing for giving the role of the character known as the Ancient One to Swinton, who is a white British woman, when the character in the comic books is of Tibetan descent.
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Yang is writing an alt-history novel centering on a Chinese Joan of Arc–type heroine saving white people—which she says is directly in response to the whitewashing of Asian culture in films like The Great Wall.
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The whiteness of the cast — Chadwick Boseman and Elodie Yung are the only non-white leads — drew comparisons between Gods of Egypt and the 22 box office flop, Exodus: Gods and Kings, which was also accused of whitewashing.
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The Academy faced even more backlash and accusations of "whitewashing" the Latin Grammys due to Spanish Urbano artists like Rosalía and Alejandro Sanz receiving nominations for top category awards over a slew of popular Latin American Urbano artists.
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In the wake of the attack at Mother Emanuel, activist Bree Newsome scaled a flagpole at the South Carolina Statehouse to take down the Confederate flag in protest to the whitewashing of the flag's legacy after the shooting.
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The city's ongoing tear-down of abandoned structures, its graffiti clean-up campaign, and stepped-up law enforcement have largely succeeded in stamping out Detroit's graffiti history, much like the whitewashing of New York's subways in the 80s.
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The decision to cast Matt Damon in the lead role was denounced by Asian-American actors as "white savior complex " and "whitewashing," referring to the practice of casting white actors in roles originally conceived as Asian or nonwhite.
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Former German interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, of Merkel's CDU, said whitewashing by the media and politicians keeping quiet about problems related to the refugee crisis had "led to an illusion about an idyllic world that never existed".
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And now, his focus on "unity," instead of the issue of institutional violence against black people that Kaepernick was attempting to draw attention to in the first place, could be seen as a whitewashing of the protest's original intent.
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Rightfully resentful Asian-Americans need a place to hang a quarter centuries' worth of concerns about underrepresentation, misrepresentation, and whitewashing — it's just a shame that we're behaving like there won't ever be another chance to get it right again.
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In the run-up to the event, the BDS has called on artists, music fans and broadcasters to avoid the event, arguing it amounts to "whitewashing" Israel's policies toward Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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Three titles come to mind when it comes to whitewashing, or the act of casting a caucasian actor to play a role originally intended (from source material) to be performed by an actor of another race — most recently, Asian.
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We don't know who will play them yet, but Fox is trying to avoid another Hollywood whitewashing situation by casting a Native American actor as the character Danielle Moonstar and a South American actor as the Brazilian character Sunspot.
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Its members voted unanimously — amid accusations that they were whitewashing history and ignoring the complexities of an otherwise respected jurist's life and career — to remove the statue, with the idea of displaying it somewhere else, maybe in a museum.
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And in recent years, there has been increasing public furor over whitewashing in Hollywood casting, with Asian-Americans threatening film boycotts over the matter of Asian roles being given to actors like Emma Stone, Tilda Swinton and Ed Skrein.
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Dogged by a tepid critical response and a still-swirling controversy over the casting of Scarlett Johansson in the lead role — a move seen as an egregious act of whitewashing — Ghost faced an uphill battle in winning over audiences.
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Like that movie (and like the paintings of Kerry James Marshall, now exultant at the Met Breuer), Jafa's "Love" disrupts the whitewashing of American culture with a black-centric view, one that is traumatic, ecstatic, and long overdue. ♦
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Though Asian-American actors have been quite vocal in the last year about their consistent underrepresentation in Hollywood, whitewashing is a fairly novel concept for Asians in Asia, where most local television shows and movies feature all-Asian casts.
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A number of more recent films that could have had prominent Asian characters have been accused of "whitewashing", as when Scarlett Johansson appeared as the lead in last year's remake of the Japanese anime classic Ghost in the Shell.
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"The Paris Agreement is fatally flawed because it raises the price of energy for responsible countries while whitewashing some of the worst polluters," said Trump, referring to a global deal on the environment drafted in Paris in late 2015.
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Hispanic Studies professor Trevor Boffone described the ironies inherent in Porchlight's whitewashing of the Usnavi role in a post about the casting on his website: This casting decision gentrifies a show that is about a community fighting against gentrification.
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In the end, city commission chairman Keon Hardemon — the commissioner for Miami's fifth district, which includes Little Haiti — argued that the onset of gentrification and impending threat of a neighborhood-wide whitewashing were serious enough to warrant renaming the neighborhood.
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The Paste report also cited several recent examples of whitewashing in Hollywood, notably the casting of Scarlett Johansson as a Japanese character in sci-fi film Ghost in the Shell and Ed Skrein as a mixed Asian character in Hellboy.
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If one of the knocks against Whitney is that it sucked too much soul out of the singer — trading the R&B heart of her debut album for pop-blockbuster whitewashing — then this song is the most damning evidence of that.
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The latest prominent example of whitewashing is the casting of Scarlett Johansson as the main character in Ghost in the Shell, the upcoming sci-fi action film based on the popular Japanese manga of the same name, written by Masamune Shirow.
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And whitewashing of Asian characters in film is being discussed because it is happening so frequently: Ghost in the Shell was one of most egregious examples, but the new Hellboy film just cast a white actor to play a Japanese character.
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Koike was endorsed for Tokyo governor by the Japan Society for History Textbook Reform, which promotes a revisionist, nationalistic view of Japanese history, particularly downplaying or whitewashing war crimes and the use of sex slaves by Japanese forces in WWII.
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But as more people begin to rally against whitewashing Asian roles in Hollywood and more Asian-American actors open up about their experiences, it feels as if better representation will soon be a reality, not something we have to dreamcast.
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While the show has been applauded for its sumptuous period costumes and vivid recreations of 1950s New York City, it's also been criticized for its anachronistic dialogue, as well as its whitewashing of the complex racial politics of the time.
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Even before the rise of Latin trap bolstered its crossover prospects, longtime listeners to reggaeton and urbano previously saw firsthand how whitewashing led to the diminishing and veritable erasure of Afro-Latinx acts, including some of the pioneers of these styles.
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I arrived at the event just in time to hear writer/creator Vishaal Reddy talk about how tired he is of current South Asian representation, which often tries to avoid stereotypes by doubling down on whitewashing its characters and their stories.
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In March 2017, Burch's namesake label used a video campaign "#ToryStory: An American Roadtrip" featuring Poppy Delevingne and other fair-skinned models singing and dancing to "Juju On That Beat," which some took as yet another example of whitewashing Black music.
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As racial tensions over police brutality, immigration and other issues have flared over the past several years in our nation, these statues have become lightning rods — symbolizing oppression, hate and the whitewashing of history for many of us, myself included.
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EW has confirmed that Daniel Dae Kim is in negotiations to play the military man in Lionsgate and Millennium's big-screen reboot, replacing Ed Skrein after he departed the project in response to complaints of whitewashing an Asian-American character.
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There are many parallels in this story to 2016, in Hollywood's relentless whitewashing, as the anticipated remake of Japanese classic Ghost in the Shell approaches with Scarlett Johannson, not a Japanese actor, cast as the lead role of Major Motoko Kusanagi.
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"NBC has been a leader for diversity in broadcasting, but recent reports that Hall and Roker will be replaced by former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly are being seen by industry professionals as whitewashing," the group said in a statement.
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"It's not just a case of whitewashing ... but a ridicule of mass murder during the Holocaust, especially the ridicule of the gassing of millions of Jews in Auschwitz," Van der Bellen said on the TV program Mittagsjournal on Austrian broadcaster Oe1.
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For all the scathing whitewashing examples the video spits out, the tenor of Oliver's takedown is perhaps best summed up by the narrator trying to make sense of Tom Cruise's casting in the title role of 2003's The Last Samurai.
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"In America, where race-conscious education is so deep that it penetrates the hair, to film a politically correct movie requires remembering all different points of view," read a 2017 editorial explaining the whitewashing controversy in the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper.
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At first glance the show evokes Yves Klein's immersive Le Vide (The Void) 1958 show at Galerie Iris Clert, where Klein went beyond the monochrome canvas by emptying out, whitewashing the gallery and "impregnating" the empty space with his consciousness.
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However, Muddy Waters' assault has continued, and the short seller suggested that such independent reviews are usually "exercises in whitewashing," citing examples of companies being exonerated by independent reviews only to collapse later, such as Noble Group and Sino-Forest.
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The internet is not known for being forgiving of problematic cultural elements like appropriation or whitewashing, so it's perhaps surprising that this criticism hasn't really been levied against the hit, written by a band whose original lineup was six white dudes.
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"The British Museum is facilitating the whitewashing of BP's actions in Iraq by allowing the company to sponsor of an exhibition that presents it as a benevolent guardian and gatekeeper of Iraqi heritage," the group said in a press release.
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Nevertheless, whitewashing perpetuates a cycle that makes it difficult for non-white actors to break through: They can't get hired if they're up against big-name talent, and they can't become big-name talent because they're not given the opportunity.
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Every man of color mentioned is swathed in unassailable privilege or simple whitewashing, which keeps them from getting too complicated or too far from what networks deem palatable (read: as close to the white, cisgendered, suburban families who have dominated television for decades).
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The film is currently called Rub and Tug and pairs her again with director Rupert Sanders, whom she collaborated with for Ghost in the Shell, the film adaptation of a popular Japanese manga that became the subject of a whitewashing casting controversy.
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And it came on the heels of two big-budget films that featured straight-up Hollywood whitewashing: Doctor Strange, with Tilda Swinton in the role of an Asian character, and Scarlett Johansson in the then-upcoming anime adaptation Ghost in the Shell.
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"Doctor Strange" experienced some early stage turbulence as some commentators accused the filmmakers of whitewashing — or casting white actors in the roles of people of color — after it was announced Caucasian actress Tilda Swinton would play the Strange's mentor, the Ancient One.
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" Dinklage added: "These people [who call the film out for whitewashing] think they're doing the right thing politically and morally and it's actually getting flipped because what they're doing is judging and assuming what he is ethnically based on his looks alone.
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"This disturbing trend of whitewashing in big-budget movies can't get a chance to take root in Mulan as well, and if any company can afford to 'risk' adapting a beloved story with a cast of POCs, it's Disney," the petition reads.
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But as Yussef Cole illustrates, the history of racism takes insidious forms, and in the process of trying to scrub those elements away, it unknowingly replicates the archetypes of the era, keeping allusions to those racist depictions while whitewashing their cultural origins.
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" In his subsequent meetings with Mr. Eagan, Mr. Early recalled, "I was speaking very florally about my ambitions in comedy, and the whitewashing of comedy and wanting to host a show that was more diverse and gayer than I was used to.
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In reality, newspapers in the American south refused to print Owens' photo, or make any mention of the fact that black American athletes dominated the Olympic games, a reaction that managed to be more childish and whitewashing than that of the Nazis.
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Perhaps it's partially to compensate for a century of broad stereotypes, egregious and ongoing whitewashing, and tokenism, but this current variety of hicksploitation seems to say, "How do you like it, whitey," which is not to say that it's a totally new phenomenon.
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But there's been so much backlash now in Hollywood for whitewashing characters that I think they're taking it very seriously, or at least in the case of "Artemis" what I'm hearing ... Bear in mind, I'm a complete outsider to this process. Right.
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"RT management did view YouTube as hugely important to spreading content," said Liz Wahl, a former correspondent in the United States for RT who quit on the air in 2014 over concerns that the network was whitewashing the Russian annexation of Crimea.
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And on the other are those who believe that we should not allow certain unpalatable rich people to use museums as whitewashing tools, as mechanisms for ingratiating themselves with factions of the liberal and cultural ruling class and rehabilitating an unpopular image.
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In so many parts of the world, culture rooted in black communities has at one point or another faced attempts at whitewashing: Just look at all the buttoned-up white jazz ensembles that emerged across the United States in the early 20th century.
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In it, he argues that Russia is a strategic adversary, and that the Obama administration's "reset" policy erred by whitewashing Russia's record on human rights: The Obama Administration's Russia Reset policy is a bad approach because it rests on a foundation of falsehoods.
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When Stephen Ellis responded to a music poll on Twitter in November, he described "Alright"—a 2015 black power anthem by Kendrick Lamar—as "a battle cry for police brutality against people of color," which, again, was its own kind of whitewashing.
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A full house had earlier given him a loud and emotional welcome on stage but Young quickly dampened their enthusiasm, winning the set 3-2 before Van Barneveld averaged over 100 when whitewashing his opponent with his best darts in the second.
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That Skrein has taken it upon himself to publicly step away from the project is the first time in recent memory that an actor has acknowledged whitewashing prior to starring in a film (Stone, Johansson, and Swinton all acknowledged it after the fact).
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"I'm playing a white American billionaire superhero, at a time when the white American billionaire archetype is public enemy number one, especially in the US." It has less to do with public enemies than with Hollywood's history of whitewashing and lack of roles for women.
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Last month, actor Ed Skrien stepped away from his role in the Hellboy reboot after a whitewashing controversy caused fans and members of the entertainment industry to point out, once again, that a white actor was cast in a role originally written as Asian.
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Having an all-white or all-male cast has become a guaranteed way to get called out publicly, to the point that whitewashing has even been blamed for box office bombs, like when Ghost in the Shell cast Scarlett Johansson and failed to perform.
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In one of many recent decisions that have provoked backlash over Hollywood whitewashing, British actress Tilda Swinton was cast as the Ancient One in Doctor Strange, a character who is written as a Tibetan man in the comics on which the movie is based.
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For almost a year, controversy has plagued the statue, which some have accused of whitewashing history due to its spotlight on the suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony without paying equal tribute to the many women of color who contributed to the movement.
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John Oliver makes that point pretty damningly in this clip from Sunday's edition of Last Week Tonight, which turns a harsh spotlight on everything from classic examples of whitewashing in film (Scarface, West Side Story) to recent examples like Gods of Egypt and Aloha.
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However, the subtext of Williams' rant — that Haddish is benefitting from a comedy industry that is not immune to whitewashing, or at the very least, making Blackness less explicit — shouldn't be brushed off as the ramblings of an bitter comedian, jealous of other people's success.
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He was back to his imperious best in Italy, avenging his defeat to Tsitsipas before whitewashing world number one Djokovic in the opening set for the first time on his way to a first title of the season which is unlikely to be the last.
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Still, the reintroduction of the concept at a time when the Alternative for Germany is promoting its cultural version of the Aryan nation is as strategically clever as it is dangerous: The Christian Democrats are whitewashing the far-right version of the Cultural German.
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Ms. Koike can be a confusing figure for feminists, given her backing by ultraconservative groups that believe women belong in the home and that call for the whitewashing of Japanese World War II atrocities, including the enforced use of Korean "comfort women" as prostitutes.
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Hip-hop has long been a site of racial borrowing, but it has resisted whitewashing, owing to a combination of politics (explicit and implicit), its sustained connection to and dependence on the creativity of young black musicians and also its increasing financial viability (for some).
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Scarlett Johansson, in her role as the main character Motoko Kusanagi, is seen with an angular black bob and black eyebrows, in what appeared to be yet another example of "whitewashing," in which a white actor is cast to play a person of color.
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Led by their tight, yet effortless grooves, skyrocketing string sections, and psychedelic chirps and lyrics (including nerdy American jazz references), their early hits offered an organic respite to the mainstream madness over the success of the film Saturday Night Fever and whitewashing of disco.
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Senators and lawmakers vowed to introduce sanctions, called for the ouster of the crown prince and said that US credibility and leadership were on the line if the administration participates in what would essentially be the whitewashing of a journalist's murder on foreign soil.
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More than photo essays of jihadist maintenance workers whitewashing kerbstones or increasingly grotesque snuff videos, IS's greatest single tool for recruiting new followers and maintaining their grasp of current supporters is probably the evidence of current military victories, and the promise of new ones.
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It means I had to pay my rent, and Hollywood is racist and wouldn't cast me with a last name that made them uncomfortable Hollywood's unbroken, deeply ingrained tradition of whitewashing and yellowface is more than 100 years old and shows little sign of diminishing.
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Given the flimsy, self-contradictory explanations for this latest whitewashing of jihadist terrorism, it appears the Obama administration once again chose to construct a narrative that prioritizes the protection of Muslim sensitivities over the right of Americans to know who attacked them in Orlando -- and why.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Real estate developers whitewashing or tearing down walls covered in graffiti is a familiar narrative, but it appears we may have reached such an advanced stage in the cooptation of street art that those days will soon be at an end.
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The film has been criticized for having a whitewashing problem after casting British actor Alfred Molina, who is of Italian and Spanish descent, and American actor Christopher Abbot, who is of Italian and Portuguese descent, to play Afghans – and it's backlash Fey said she fully expected.
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Instead of making that the centerpiece of prosecutions, the Justice Department organized a state and federal settlement with the leading mortgage servicing companies over foreclosure fraud, whitewashing this misconduct for $25 billion, a dollar amount that looked good in headlines but was actually much lower than advertised.
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In the 20 years that Masi Oka has worked in Hollywood, he's never provoked the wrath of the internet — that is, until he gave an interview about the whitewashing controversy surrounding Death Note, the upcoming film adaptation of a popular manga which he helped produce for Netflix.
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SyFy embracing this new wave marks a major change from just a decade ago, when the network was involved in one of television's ugliest, most high-profile cases of "whitewashing" — removing the multicultural characters from its adaptation of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books, to her vocal disgust.
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But their insistence on not only welcoming Warrior back into the fold, but completely whitewashing his past and elevating his likeness to a bland symbol of corporate altruism is shockingly tone-deaf, especially for a company that's at least outwardly trying to appear progressive, inclusive and diverse.
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" This is a just conclusion, and stands in contrast to the whitewashing done by Commentary where we are told, in an article criticizing "black anti-Semitism" that "For all his many faults, Donald Trump has never 'questioned the humanity,' either metaphysically or biologically, 'of Jewish people.
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Not all of the news is good, however; the past year also saw two more whitewashing controversies thanks to the live-action Ghost in the Shell and Netflix's Death Note, and people of color on the big screen still lag far behind their populations in real life.
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She didn't hold back on sharing her polarizing opinions ("Those who say racism doesn't exist anymore are the biggest perpetuators of it"), and she did the possibly more important work of engaging Asian-Americans who feel the personal and cultural impacts of whitewashing on the big screen.
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The fact that it coincided with the Brit-Pop invasion of the second half of the 90s is no coincidence either, as they are both examples of the English taking American roots music, whitewashing it, and selling it back to American teens for twenty bucks a pop.
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The emerging media narrative, which focuses on the belated actions Trump is taking now, not only makes Trump's whitewashing easier but even suggests that Trump has any other motive than the naked self-interest he displayed when he could have actually protected the public's well-being.
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The list of non-white potential nominees could go on, but the fact that Margot Robbie has been nominated twice in the Best Supporting Actress category — once for a role in which she speaks for all of two minutes — only makes the category's whitewashing sting even more.
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"Today, Beckie Scott and Edwin Moses expressed their extreme disappointment in the report released today by The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) through their appointed law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, whitewashing complaints of harassment and intimidation," Ben Chew, lawyer for Scott and Moses, said in a statement.
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In an interview, Peter Loehr, chief executive of Legendary East, the China subsidiary of Legendary Entertainment, and one of the movie's producers, discussed what Hollywood and China could learn from each other and why he rejected accusations of the film's "whitewashing" in the casting of Mr. Damon.
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There's growing awareness of how representation affects entertainment, which has lead to, for instance, the whitewashing discussions about Ghost in the Shell and Death Note, or Ed Skrein's decision to turn down a role in Hellboy, once he learned the character was meant to be of Asian descent.
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When Margaret Cho and Tilda Swinton had a come-to-Jesus moment late last year about the whitewashing of Asian characters in films like Doctor Strange, Swinton boasted about an upcoming project that would show the world that she was on the right side of the diversity fight.
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The tension was highlighted by what appeared to be an off-hand joke about characters in other ABC sitcoms featuring people of color being "just like us," which many took as a rebuke to the diversity that networks -- not so long ago accused of whitewashing -- have sought to foster.
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So when Netflix announced that it was making a live-action movie of the franchise set in Seattle instead of Tokyo, and that starred white actor Nat Wolff as the protagonist Light Yagami, who in turn would be renamed Light Turner, accusations of whitewashing flew thick and fast.
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Historian Henry Louis Gates describes the retelling of the events at Gettysburg by most Civil War historians as "whitewashing the history of [its] most famous battle," because it truncates the number of people involved and the timeframe in which the battle of Gettysburg (which included Pickett's Charge) took place.
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Image 2 of 2 JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he understands the criticism of his compromise agreement with Poland over its disputed Holocaust speech law, as he tried to tamp down an uproar at home in which critics have accused him of whitewashing history for political considerations.
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As fury over the "whitewashing" of the awards erupted and the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag was revived on Twitter, The New York Times's co-chief film critics, A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis, and the critic at large, Wesley Morris, took part in a discussion about structural biases endemic to the movie industry.
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Foreign arts professionals that flock to official Cuban cultural events rarely challenge the cultural bureaucracy's whitewashing of ongoing tensions between artists and the state — either because they don't understand the system, or they are blinded by their political allegiance to outdated ideologies, or they fear being expelled from the country.
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Tory Burch found itself in that uncomfortable situation when its latest video campaign was subject to accusations of the latter: "#ToryStory: An American Roadtrip" featured Poppy Delevingne and other fair-skinned models sinhing and dancing to "Juju On That Beat," which some took as yet another example of whitewashing Black music.
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And the government has been only too happy to allocate certain of its kleptocratic funds toward whitewashing its image and operations abroad, from corrupting European institutions, to threatening to bring down the Maltese prime minister, to helping spark the largest U.S. congressional ethics scandal since the days of Jack Abramoff.
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What Weinstein did, unintentionally, is expose a whitewashing move that happens so often in anti- "free speech" and "political correctness" argumentation — making the issue not about the offensive speech itself, and what it says about the speaker, but the fact that people don't like that speech in the first place.
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Mr. Moon, then an opposition presidential candidate, rode a wave of public anger over the alleged corruption and shortcomings of his predecessor, Park Geun-hye, whose government was widely accused of not only failing to respond adequately to the sinking of the ferry Sewol but also of whitewashing the investigation.
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" The accusations of the movie's "whitewashing" created enough of a stir that Fanning took to Instagram to clarify that her character is not Ethiopian and that, even though she is the movie's star, "this film was partly made in Ethiopia, is directed by an Ethiopian man and features many Ethiopian women.
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"The Saudi Arabian government has a policy whereby they improve the image of the government through sport, whitewashing their image, and we all have a responsibility there," Tebas told reporters last week in London, where he unveiled the league's latest overseas venture, a new British television channel dedicated to La Liga.
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The hokiness of the premise is bound up with another problem: At a time when the "whitewashing" of Asian narratives and roles is a hot issue, "Iron Fist" is about a white man who spends a lot of time in a dojo and has a Buddhist aphorism for every occasion.
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But these two "fiction" films attracted particular attention because of questions about how the story would be approached by the two companies, fueled partly by comments Chu made on Twitter about "whitewashing," as well as competing efforts to obtain the rights to the story — and the realities about who owns those rights.
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The protests disrupted pride events earlier this month in Columbus, Ohio and Washington, DC. Their causes varied -- police shootings, violence against transgender women of color, mass deportations, corporate sponsorship of Pride -- but organizer Angela Peoples said members of the grassroots movement were united by concerns of the "whitewashing" of the LGBTQ community.
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Glaude, another vocal supporter of the protesters, sees a distinction between the kinds of erasures that amount to whitewashing history—referring to slaves as "workers," as a McGraw-Hill textbook in Texas did, or redacting the "n-word" from "Huck Finn"—and a rethinking of symbols intended to commemorate the nation's ideals.
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Expressing remorse At odds with much Japanese behavior of recent years, ranging from Prime Ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines war criminals among others, to whitewashing Japanese atrocities in school textbooks, Akihito has been expressing remorse and making gestures of repentance that convey Japan's contrition regarding the nation's regional rampage.
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Offerman's Illinois-raised voice and actor's talent suit him ideally to channel Mark Twain and his archetypal American Puck (that "P" isn't a typo), who played pirates with an archetypal American Huck, conned his pals into whitewashing the fence, fell in love with Becky Thatcher and showed up alive at his own funeral.
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Velázquez also never gave a major TED Talk — as Mr. Kaphar has notably done, demonstrating how artists convey wealth and privilege by taking a copy of a Frans Hals portrait of a 239th-century aristocratic family and whitewashing the main figures to shift the gaze to a black servant in the background.
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It was a crushing blow to nearly two dozen established graffiti artists when in 21 the owner of the Queens building complex known as 2200Pointz ordered a surprise nighttime whitewashing of their colorful murals, leaving them with little chance to document or save the spray-painted artwork that had attracted worldwide attention.
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Part of the goal here would naturally be to steer clear of the issues Marvel has already experienced with its Netflix show Iron Fist, which dipped heavily into Orientalist stereotypes and featured a white protagonist who became the world's greatest martial artist, or with Doctor Strange, which was accused of whitewashing a central character.
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These included concerns as to whether the video would accidentally make it look like Swift was out to shoot lions instead of a film, and whether she'd be accused of "whitewashing history and ignoring segregation" if Kahn cast a black actor to play the director of the fictional feature, as was his original impulse.
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So-called "whitewashing" has become a contentious issue in the movie and TV industry, highlighted by the casting of Emma Stone as a character of Hawaiian and Asian heritage in the 2015 film "Aloha," and the choice of white British actor Charlie Hunnam to play a Mexican-American drug lord in an upcoming Hollywood movie.
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Starring DJ Kate Simko, NTS Radio affiliate Debonair, Trainspotting creator Irvine Welsh, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life author Bill Brewster, and The Warehouse Project's Sacha Lord-Marchionne, the film touches on topics ranging from the problems with the UK's current drug policy to whitewashing, gentrification, and the importance of a vibrant nighttime economy.
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These casting choices come at a time when whitewashing has become a major topic of conversation within Hollywood circles and as the industry has been taken to task by actors and audiences of color frustrated with the lack of opportunities for actors of color, even when characters onscreen are written as people of color.
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Socially, this is based on the simple fact that a white actor playing the part of a black entertainer, even when their complexions are similar shades, is just another case of cinematic whitewashing, where a role that should and could have been played by a black actor is given to a white actor instead.
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Menken is set to work with Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda on the music for a live-action Little Mermaid (release date TBD), and a proposed Mulan update has already seen its fair share of controversy thanks to conflicting reports of whitewashing in the script (though Disney has confirmed that it's searching for Asian actors to fill the lead roles).
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I was surprised, I guess, because it was based on a teaser, it wasn't even a full trailer, let alone a movie," he said of the backlash, adding, "If people see this movie and there is somehow whitewashing involved in a creature feature that we made up, then I will listen to that with my whole heart.
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Under Fernandez, the prosecutor probing the attack on the AMIA Jewish community center was found dead in January 2015, just hours before he was to appear in Congress to outline his accusation that Fernandez had tried to clear the way for a "grains for oil" deal with Iran by whitewashing Iran's role in the truck bombing.
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Ms. Cho states her case again and suggests that the protests will not stop: I think that it's just a timing thing - Asian Americans are fed up with not being given roles even if the part called for someone of Asian descent - and that the Ancient One role was being used as another example of 'whitewashing'.
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BEIJING — When the trailer for "The Great Wall," a high-profile China-Hollywood coproduction, was released last year, critics pounced: The scenes of Matt Damon leading a Chinese army into battle seemed like yet another instance of Hollywood's "white savior" complex and its repeated whitewashing, the practice of casting white actors in roles originally conceived as Asian (or nonwhite).
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Adapted from Jeff VanderMeer's book (and already the subject of some controversy amid charges of "whitewashing" in its casting), "Annihilation" is a notably female-centric film, as Lena embarks on her expedition into The Shimmer with an all-women group, well aware that it's a bit like an ethereal roach motel -- researchers go in, but they haven't come out.
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Scientists and university professors all around the country and in Canada believe we're about to see widespread whitewashing and redaction of already published, publicly available taxpayer-funded scientific research, databases, and interactive tools, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Sea Level Rise viewer, NASA's suite of climate change apps, and the Environmental Protection Agency's maps of the country's worst polluters.
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"We find it astonishing that a company such as Ernst & Young, which uses the slogan 'building a better working world' without any sense of irony, spends millions whitewashing its image by sponsoring these sorts of exhibitions, while at the same time throwing its most vulnerable workers on the street without giving it a second thought," Emiliano Mellino, a spokesperson for IWGB, told Hyperallergic.
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Shining through this media blackout, it was quite remarkable to witness last Tuesday, May 9th evening the iconic tally-marks of the prisoners' movement projected by the Illuminator at a gigantic scale on buildings throughout Manhattan, transposing the wall of the prison cell to a network of sites involved in variously funding, supporting, and whitewashing Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.
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As Vox's Joss Fong and Christophe Haubursin explain in this video, Hollywood has a history of not just giving Asian roles to white actors, but also using those roles to mock Asian people: The most recent instance of "whitewashing" controversy roiled in 2016, when Scarlett Johansson was cast as Motoko Kusanagi, the Japanese lead character in Ghost in the Shell adapted from Masamune Shirow's manga.
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"At odds with much Japanese behavior of recent years, ranging from prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines war criminals among others, to whitewashing Japanese atrocities in school textbooks, Akihito has been expressing remorse and making gestures of repentance that convey Japan's contrition regarding the nation's regional rampage," Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University Japan, wrote for CNN this year.
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A year after Scarlett Johansson's appearance in 5's adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, in which she played a canonically Asian woman and sparked a conversation about whitewashing in Hollywood, the actor has made yet another questionable decision: next year, she'll be starring in Ghost director Rupert Sanders' Rub & Tug, a biopic based on the real-life story of massage parlor boss Dante "Tex" Gill.
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"At odds with much Japanese behavior of recent years, ranging from prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines war criminals among others, to whitewashing Japanese atrocities in school textbooks, Akihito has been expressing remorse and making gestures of repentance that convey Japan's contrition regarding the nation's regional rampage," Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University Japan, wrote for CNN in 2016.
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Despite facing criticism in the past for accepting a role as a transgender man and starring as a Japanese woman in 20183's Ghost in the Shell amid cries of whitewashing, Johansson has pushed back against those who would challenge her commitment to supporting diversity and inclusion in Hollywood, by suggesting she should be allowed to play anyone or anything — backlash and "political correctness" be damned.
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Whether it is Charlottesville, immigration bans or affirmative action, the athletes protesting racism by "taking a knee," the "whitewashing" of Hollywood, the Black Lives Matter movement or the approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Native American land, one can hardly open a newspaper or a social media feed without confronting questions about the role of race in the United States and the world.
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Over the last few years, however, increased pressure from fandoms--often given a voice they never had before thanks to the Internet--and general changes in demographics have led to a slight reversal in age-old trends: Not only is whitewashing roles of color becoming a deserved stain on a movie's legacy, but some roles traditionally coded as white or male are being filled with non-white and female talent.
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The cultural lexicon Breitz draws from is the whitewashing tendency of Hollywood, a perennial controversial topic that made headlines late last year after several high-profile nonwhite characters were played by white actors: Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in Doctor Strange (2016), Matt Damon as a Chinese warrior in The Great Wall (101193), and Scarlett Johansson as Major Mira Killian / Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell (2017).
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Considering the classic story and blockbuster potential of the new Aladdin, it's not surprising that Disney is taking their time to find just the right stars — and it's encouraging to hear that they're dedicated to finding somebody of Middle Eastern or Indian descent, as opposed to whitewashing the iconic roles (although the problematic conflation of those two different ethnicities signifies how much progress is yet to be made).
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So it's disconcerting to see white women like Jolie and Gaga named as the sole contenders for the role, even if their participation in the project is just a rumor for now — especially given all of the discussions that have taken place about Hollywood's whitewashing of history, be it in newer films like Gods of Egypt, Exodus, or The Prince of Persia, or in classics like Liz Taylor's Cleopatra.
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But given the recent behavior of the Council and its president, Frederick Kempe, it appears that the organization is using its legitimacy as a veil to hide a whitewashing operation just as morally bankrupt as any public relations firm in Washington, D.C. Today, human rights abusing regimes in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates top the Council's public donor list, and continue to be the beneficiaries of the organization's public relations spin.
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If you can get around whitewashing of the Vietnam War in this Disney movie made for children (which, I get, maybe kids don't need to see the full reality of war), Operation Dumbo Drop is a pretty wild and goofy experience, especially with Ray Liotta and Danny Glover playing the leads several years into their very successful careers and not far after some of their most iconic roles in Goodfellas and Lethal Weapon, respectively.
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A lot has been written about this decade's moral whitewashing of the English countryside—how it's become a place painted polite by people looking to sell things: companies selling cider; Mumford & Sons selling records; internet dating sites selling a twee facsimile of love via Hobbit-looking ukulele dickheads; The Great British Bake Off selling dull evenings in; the Tory government selling its own authenticity through the landowner fantasy of power born-to-rule.
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After a short bit about reading Oh's lines on the teleprompter and "whitewashing" her speech, Samberg stepped aside while Oh made a heartfelt statement about the growing number of women and people of color among the nominees: If I could take a moment here: In all honesty, I said yes to the fear of being on this stage tonight because I wanted to be here to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change.
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Chicago actor Madrid St. Angelo also responded to the casting, suggesting on Facebook that Porchlight's whitewashing was motivated by financial concerns rather than a wish to honor the spirit of the play as written: Porchlight's decision to produce In the Heights is a clear cut example of a theatre producing company producing a play for all of the wrong reasons … When we strip away the beautiful strokes of color, inherent in a playwright's work, we deliver a false gift.
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FROM COINAGE: The Top 5 Most Expensive Movies of All Time No doubt in response to the loud cries of whitewashing that the casting of Hollywood stars in a fundamentally Japanese product has justifiably provoked, Sanders takes care to make his supporting players conspicuously pan-racial: Dutch actor Pilou Asbaek, Tokyo superstar "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, and Kurdish-Polish ingenue Danusia Samal join a cast whose nationalities are nearly as varied as their "enhancements"—the android add-ons future citizens buy for themselves the way bored commuters upload the latest Candy Crush Saga to their smartphones in 2017.
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