{"id":60968,"date":"2021-06-21T02:19:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T02:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60968"},"modified":"2021-06-21T02:19:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T02:19:45","slug":"the-accusation-of-colorism-in-the-light-skinned-casting-choices-illuminates-a-problem-regarding-whom-hollywood-presents-as-latino-and-whom-it-excludes-according-to-tanya-k-hernand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60968","title":{"rendered":"The accusation of colorism in the light-skinned casting choices illuminates a problem regarding whom Hollywood presents as \u201cLatino,\u201d and whom it excludes, according to Tanya K. Hern\u00e1ndez, author of Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The accusation of colorism in the light-skinned casting choices illuminates a problem regarding whom <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a> presents as \u201cLatino,\u201d and whom it excludes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.professortkh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tanya K. Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThere is often a complete erasure of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afro-Latinos<\/a>, and a frozen, overly romanticized picture of indigenous peoples as only historical figures from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maya_peoples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayan<\/a> past,\u201d she says. Any viewer of American TV or movies can observe that mainstream media typically highlights light-skinned Latinos, even though a 2014 Pew Research Center survey showed nearly one in four Latinos identifies as Afro-Latino.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrea Marks, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How \u2018In the Heights\u2019 Casting Focused a Wider Problem of Afro-Latino Representation<\/a>,\u201d <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, June 16, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/in-the-heights-casting-colorism-afro-latino-1184945\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/in-the-heights-casting-colorism-afro-latino-1184945\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accusation of colorism in the light-skinned casting choices illuminates a problem regarding whom Hollywood presents as \u201cLatino,\u201d and whom it excludes, according to Tanya K. Hern\u00e1ndez, author of Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination. \u201cThere is often a complete erasure of Afro-Latinos, and a frozen, overly romanticized picture of indigenous peoples as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31527,23949,23950,2113,5161,2112],"class_list":["post-60968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-andrea-marks","tag-rolling-stone","tag-rolling-stone-magazine","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968","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=60968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60969,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60968\/revisions\/60969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}