Civil Rights powerpoint (2009) by Brandon Baldwin of the Civil Rights Team Project of the state of Maine

1. Whitewashing

2. He’s Just Not That Into You

3. Baltimore, MD65% black, 31% white population

4. He’s Just Not That Into You

5. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

6. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Original: Sinbad is Arab, grows up in Bagdhad Disney: Sinbad is Greek, grows up in Syracuse and sounds a lot like Brad Pitt

7. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

8. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Prince Dastan Jake Gyllenhaal?

9. Making Angelina Jolie black:

10. Mariane Pearl and Angelina Jolie

11. 21

12. From Asians to white guys…

13. Can you tell these men apart?

14. “Believe me, I would have loved to cast Asians in the lead roles, but the truth is, we didn't have access to any bankable Asian American actors that we wanted… If I had known how upset the Asian American community would be about this, I would have picked a different story to film.”-DANA BRUNETTI, 21’s producer

15. Just about every single Asian American that you see on screen on American movies or tv shows today is there for a very specific asian reason (yes, i do know there are exceptions…but they are very, very few). They don’t exist as most Asian Americans exist in America today: as real, three dimensional, everyday people… Yet when it comes to American media and those who create it, the asians on screen have to be justified through some sort of asian reason.Asian-American actor Roger Fan

16. Can you think of some “Asian reasons” why Hollywood casts Asians in films?

17. A reason like this?

18. Challenge Question: Come up with a movie where one of the main characters is Asian or Asian-American and does not do martial arts.

20. Controversy in Avatar casting

21. “I think it’s one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan,” he said of the transformation he’ll go through to look more like Sokka. “It’s one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit.”-JACKSON RATHBONE

22. Suspend disbelief?

23. Avatar and the Lost Airbendercast:

24. Good vs. Evil

25. Avatar and the Lost Airbendercast:

26. Challenge Question: Name a movie where the good guy is foreign and the bad guy is American.

27. “Bad Guys” in The Hangover

28. Disney’s Aladdinboth characters from Arabian city of Agrabah GOOD EVIL

29. Xerxes gets a makeover for 300

30. Bond villains

31. Accents in Ratatouille Rats and Linguine have no accent Everyone else does! They’re ALL French

32. War movies

33. Changing nature of bad guys In 1984 it’s the Russians In 2010 it will be the Chinese

34. Recent Films with Foreign Bad Guys: Quantum of Solace Hancock Watchmen Hulk Angels and Demons Taken G.I. Joe Star Trek

35. Us vs. Them!

36. The Ultimate Us vs. Them!

37. The Ultimate Us vs. Them!

38. Where are the nice aliens?

39. “Aliens?”

40. Xenophobia?

41. Challenge Question: Name a movie with Arab, Muslim, and/or Middle Eastern characters who are not evil.

42. Casting of Arab/Muslim characters: There are about 400 million Arab people in the world today. There are about one billion Muslims. Most are not terrorists… except in Hollywood.