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Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Few Roles For Hispanics In Top Hollywood Movies

A new study shows that less than 5 percent of actors in top Hollywood films are Hispanic, and that Latinas are more likely than women of any other ethnicity to appear partially or totally naked on screen.

The study of the top 100 grossing films in 2013, by the University of Southern California's Annenberg school, found that the make-believe world of movies generally does not reflect what America looks like in real life.

About 74 percent of the actors in the study were white, compared with a U.S. population that's 63 percent non-Hispanic white.

Hispanics, who are 17 percent of the nation but had 4.9 percent of film roles, were the most underrepresented group on screen. That's despite the fact that Hispanics bought about 25 percent of all movie tickets and are more likely than any other group to go to the movies, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

poo. for the past 5 years awards have been going to hispanics with such regularity as to be predictable. now, momentum is swinging back to the blacks as halle berry finishes up the "70 years" she waited for that award.