From blackface to whitewashing Or how the film industry is still racist

Main Article Content

Lía Báez Puente

Abstract

The film industry has always been linked to the construction of social and racial imaginaries, that unfortunately throughout history, have been focused on discrimination, racism and the creation of stereotypes on the minorities. This practice, very common at the beginning of the film industry, since the making of The Birth of a Nation, hasn’t stopped. But has found different ways to disguise a state of permanent racial segregation.

Article Details

Section
Fuera de cuadro
Author Biography

Lía Báez Puente, Independent author

Lía Báez Puente. Bogotá, 1994. Woman. Feminist. Audiovisual Director and Researcher, and also researcher of on body language. She studied Directing and Acting at Incine, Film School. With her work she is always exploring and questioning herself on the dynamics and relation between image, body and society. She firmly believes that aesthetic should always be political.