{"id":48752,"date":"2016-08-20T23:29:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T23:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48752"},"modified":"2016-08-20T23:29:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T23:29:25","slug":"our-diversity-isnt-looking-very-diverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48752","title":{"rendered":"Our Diversity Isn\u2019t Looking Very Diverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.affinitymagazine.us\/2016\/08\/20\/our-diversity-isnt-looking-very-diverse\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Our Diversity Isn\u2019t Looking Very Diverse<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.affinitymagazine.us\" target=\"_blank\">Affinity Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/etinni_\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Etienne Rodriguez<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.affinitymagazine.us\/2016\/08\/20\/our-diversity-isnt-looking-very-diverse\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.affinitymagazine.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/colorism.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look alive, True Believers, if the rumors are to be believed, then <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zendaya\" target=\"_blank\">Zendaya<\/a> is playing the role of Mary Jane Watson in the upcoming <em>Spider-Man<\/em> movie. This is the latest in a series of black women being cast in traditionally white comic book roles. First it was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Candice_Patton\" target=\"_blank\">Candice Patton<\/a> being cast as Iris West in CW\u2019s <em>The Flash<\/em>, then <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tessa_Thompson\" target=\"_blank\">Tessa Thompson<\/a> as Valkyrie in Marvel\u2019s <em>Thor: Ragnarok<\/em>, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiersey_Clemons\" target=\"_blank\">Kiersey Clemons<\/a> being cast in Warner Brother\u2019s <em>The Flash<\/em>, and now <em>Zendaya<\/em>. While they\u2019re all great actresses and I can\u2019t wait to see them in action, it\u2019s hard not to notice that only a certain type of black girl is being cast.<\/p>\n<p>We all want to celebrate the fact that black women are getting more roles, but we need to address the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\">colorism<\/a> in these casting. Zendaya, Kiersey, Tessa, and Candice are all lightskin black women. These aren\u2019t coincidences; these are products of our society\u2019s devaluing of darkskin black women, especially those that don\u2019t meet Eurocentric beauty standards. These actresses received\/continue to receive a lot of hate, doused in racism no doubt, but nothing in comparison to what <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_Jones_(comedian)\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Jones<\/a> went through just last month.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie is a darkskin black women with Afrocentric features, and the internet sure as hell wanted her to know it. Through comparison to gorillas, various racial slurs, and general bigotry, she was forced to retreat from Twitter and thus interacting with her fans. Women like her are rarely given the chance to shine and when they are, they\u2019re met with harassment and abuse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.affinitymagazine.us\/2016\/08\/20\/our-diversity-isnt-looking-very-diverse\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Diversity Isn\u2019t Looking Very Diverse Affinity Magazine 2016-08-20 Etienne Rodriguez Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Look alive, True Believers, if the rumors are to be believed, then Zendaya is playing the role of Mary Jane Watson in the upcoming Spider-Man movie. This is the latest in a series of black women being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8413,8,20],"tags":[24804,240,24802,24803,19672],"class_list":["post-48752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-affinity-magazine","tag-colorism","tag-etienne-rodriguez","tag-kiersey-clemons","tag-tessa-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48753,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48752\/revisions\/48753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}