{"id":110,"date":"2018-02-18T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T02:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=110"},"modified":"2018-02-18T21:14:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T02:14:47","slug":"lack-of-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/02\/18\/lack-of-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To this day, I do not understand why there is still a lack of diversity in American popular culture, more specifically, the film industry. Sure, there are diverse backgrounds represented, but most of the times these people aren\u2019t given lead roles. The United States is a country where people of all identities contribute socially, economically, and politically. Statistics show that Latinos buy 1 in 4 tickets every single weekend. In 2016, Latinos also bought 21% of movie tickets, but in 2016\u2019s top 100 films, only 3.1% of speaking characters in films were Latinos. Similarly, black actors and actresses aren\u2019t rare in films, however they still don\u2019t often obtain lead roles as much as they should. This past weekend, Marvel\u2019s FIRST black superhero film, <em>Black Panther<\/em>, premiered. It has been a success, and it has been so hyped up for the reason that it is rare when a black person is the face of a movie. Not only did it star a black person, but Ryan Coogler also directed it. Coogler was also Marvel\u2019s first African-American director. One film isn\u2019t going to solve any racial issues or satisfy the need for diversity, but with more films like these, we\u2019ll get somewhere. However, it should not be once a year when a person of color is given a lead role.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pallotta, Frank. \u201cBlack Panther.\u201d (n.d.). Black Panther is heading for a blockbuster weekend. Here\u2019s why that matters. Retrieved February 18, 2018, from <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/16\/media\/black-panther-opening-box-office\/index.html\">http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/16\/media\/black-panther-opening-box-office\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno, C. (2018, January 22). Gina Rodriguez Slams Hollywood For Lack of Latino Leads. Retrieved 18, 2018, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/gina-rodriguez-hollywood-latino_us_5a65fdbce4b002283004d524\">https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/gina-rodriguez-hollywood-latino_us_5a65fdbce4b002283004d524<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To this day, I do not understand why there is still a lack of diversity in American popular culture, more specifically, the film industry. Sure, there are diverse backgrounds represented, but most of the times these people aren\u2019t given lead roles. The United States is a country where people of all identities contribute socially, economically, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}