This holiday season’s top box office earners include a surprisingly large number of films about people of color. The controversial “Precious,†a gritty story about an obese, pregnant black teen, cracked the top 10 and “The Blind Side,†an “inspirational†story about a rich white lady who takes in a troubled, black teen, and turns […]
ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK: People of Color Dancing at the Box Office This Winter
December 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: Stereotypes Can Save the Balloon Boy’s Japanese Mom
October 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
In last week’s column, I wrote about the refreshing lack of a racial angle in the media coverage of the so-called “balloon boy†incident. Just as we were going to press though, I came across an article on the ABC News Website that places a large amount of the blame for the incident on Japanese […]
ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: Race and Reality: The ‘Balloon Boy,’ Jon & Kate
October 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
On Wednesday last week, a six-year-old hapa boy captured the attention of the world when it was reported that he was trapped in a homemade helium balloon floating 15,000 feet in the air. Falcon Heene, dubbed “the balloon boy,†replaced President Obama’s New Orleans town hall meeting as the day’s big story on cable news. […]
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