Americans often have trouble visualising what racial diversity and politics look like outside the context of our own, and this was on full display as people scrambled to defend the whitewashed films. And what people didn’t seem to be able to grasp was exact demographic breakdowns don’t matter here: this is another example of whiteness as the default setting, even though, in Marron’s words, “There’s nothing about whiteness in the central characters. They’re just ‘normal’.”
Source: newstatesman.com
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