Blackface, Whitewashing and the Grey Zone

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:11:09 +0000

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(1/2) Who gets to play who on screen – and how?

In this first of a two-part video essay, Leigh Singer looks at Hollywood's shifting but stubborn history of white privilege and racial blacklisting.

Check back next week for part two, in which he considers testing questions of off-colour comedy, from Blake Edwards’ The Party to The Simpsons, and today’s fraught state of argument over identity, representation and opportunity.