SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Optical Carrier Transmission Rates, Reel Bad Arabs, Jennifer Lawrence
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R ac e , n at i o n , an d p o p u l ar c u l t u r e. Ex-nomination: whiteness unnamed, white people do not stand in for an entire people. They"re not required to stand in for their race. They might be judged for other part of their identity (ie. sexuality) but never their race. Naming whiteness: challenges ex-nomination but can work to reassert white norms. 94% of the academy is white, 2% black, 2% latino. 77% of the academy are men over the age of 62: connections between who"s part of the drawing board versus who is nominated/wins. 1/3rd of nominees for rap awards were white. Same year where people such as azalea banks had great success. Casting white actors to play non-white roles (heightens over representation: jennifer lawrence in thg, jake gyllenhaal in the prince of persia, emma stone in aloha, the last airbender.
