Tag: Stereotypes
Netflix’s big bet on foreign content and international viewers could upend...
Paolo Sigismondi, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
As a kid growing up in Italy, I remember watching...
Kamala Harris represents an opportunity for coalition building between Blacks and...
Danielle Casarez Lemi, Southern Methodist University and Melina Juárez Pérez, Western Washington University
Kamala Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother;...
Prosecutors are increasingly – and misleadingly – using rap lyrics as...
Erik Nielson, University of Richmond
Rapper Darrell Caldwell, better known to fans as Drakeo the Ruler, was on his way to stardom. Hailed as one...
Why don’t more women win science Nobels?
Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University
All of the 2019 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men.
That’s a return to business as usual, after...
How ‘America’s Got Talent’ contestant Kodi Lee shattered stereotypes about disability
Stan Link, Vanderbilt University
If you haven’t seen Kodi Lee’s May 28 performance on “America’s Got Talent,” it’s worth a watch.
The 22-year-old Lee is blind...
We’re in a golden age of black horror films
Robin R. Means Coleman, Texas A&M University
In the horror genre, black is definitely back.
The movie “Ma,” which premieres on May 31, will star...
How the new ‘Aladdin’ stacks up against a century of Hollywood...
Evelyn Alsultany, University of Southern California
Though critically acclaimed and widely beloved, the 1992 animated “Aladdin” feature had some serious issues with stereotyping.
Disney wanted to...
With a limited on-screen presence, autistic characters have emerged in another...
Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine and Rebecca Black, University of California, Irvine
In one Harry Potter fan fiction story, Hermione Granger anxiously awaits the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
