jmtorres: (scream)
jmtorres ([personal profile] jmtorres) wrote2011-06-13 09:25 pm

WHITE PRIVILEGE AHOY

My lecture on movie musicals says they started with stories about African-Americans and Irish Americans and German Americans etc, leftover from Vaudeville. Then the lecture produces this:

Eventually, Hollywood and movie musicals in general would move away from this kind of ethnic-based narrative, as the heroes of most movie musicals are usually generic "American" types without any ethnic markers.


CAN ANYONE SPOT WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS SENTENCE?
blueraccoon: bitmoji avatar of me, a white woman wearing red glasses with a pink buzzcut (Default)

[personal profile] blueraccoon 2011-06-14 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
*boggles* I just. What. The.

I don't even know where to START with that.
echan: rainbow arch supernova remnant (Default)

[personal profile] echan 2011-06-14 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch.
rydra_wong: Lee Miller photo showing two women wearing metal fire masks in England during WWII. (Default)

[personal profile] rydra_wong 2011-06-14 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaaaaaaaah.
synecdochic: torso of a man wearing jeans, hands bound with belt (Default)

[personal profile] synecdochic 2011-06-14 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
whut
qem_chibati: Coloured picture of Killua from hunter x hunter, with the symbol of Qem in the corner. (A cat made from Q, E, M) (Default)

[personal profile] qem_chibati 2011-06-14 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
Funny how "color-blind" = colourless all the time. :(
ambyr: a dark-winged man standing in a doorway over water; his reflection has white wings (watercolor by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law) (REALLY)

[personal profile] ambyr 2011-06-14 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
Wow.
everysecondtuesday: glasses and milk tea in the morning (Default)

[personal profile] everysecondtuesday 2011-06-14 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
I. Wait. What. D:
dorothy1901: OTW hugo (Default)

[personal profile] dorothy1901 2011-06-14 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
What would someone without any ethnic markers look like? Lime jello, maybe? No, wait; lime jello looks kind of Irish. How about grape jello?
dorothy1901: OTW hugo (Default)

[personal profile] dorothy1901 2011-06-15 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
How about something that predates modern ethnicity, like Australopithecus? Can we say that a movie musical hero who looks like Australopithecus lacks ethnicity?