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[yeloson]

Glockgal's FAQ on the whitewashing
ABW on "It was an all asian world, and it wasn't fucked up".
Tablesaw's Fear of a Black (fantasy) planet
Vejiicakes: White until proven asian
The Deadbro discussion

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The letter writing campaign

The Slashfilm article- complete with rage inducing comments (read only if you suffer low blood pressure or are a masochist.

Any other discussions/posts I should know about?

ETA: Larger issues of whitewashing in media, more to come.
Stereohyped: Movie Makers continue whitewashing films.
Hollywood Chinese: White actors in asian roles
Stereohyped: Movie Makers continue whitewashing films.
Ursula LeGuin on A Whitewashed Earthsea
Mixed Race America on Hollywood's Whitwash (Aka "Not without a Honky Syndrome")
Asianweek on 21's whitewashing

Comments

[delux-vivens.livejournal.com]

xpost this to deadbro?

[kialio.livejournal.com]

From Slahsfilm, this comment gave me a laugh at least:

This should be called The Last Airbender 90210.

[soothai.livejournal.com]

we should shoot our own version.

i want to play the sister...just let me grow outmy hair. :)

[yeloson.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Contemplating the reaction to an all-black cast for Lord of the Rings.

yrs--
--Ben

[yeloson.livejournal.com]

Funny you mention that.

I re-read Return of the King a week back and was thinking how it would read if you switched the words black and white in the text.

I was also thinking how the general story fits better with theatre, and how theatre sometimes experiments with casting against gender and color expectations.

[maerhys.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all of the links, these honkyshines are more of the same yet legendary at the same time. *smh*