Posted: Aug 05, 2018 11:19 pm
Thommo wrote:I'm With Stupid wrote:Thommo wrote:African Americans seem to fare rather worse, mind you.
Do they? I think that African Americans do about as well as you would expect given their population, although that hides a disparity between male and female actors. See how many famous black actors you can name and then see how many men and women you have.
I think so, but I could be misremembering. Just as a straw poll I googled the first quantified list of big name actors of recent years I could and found this:
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/featur ... t-century/
which gives from the top 70:
Women: 16, of which 1 is black and the other 15 are ostensibly white.
Men: 54, of which 6 are black, 1 is polynesian and 1 is mixed race of unclear background.
Taking demography figures from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograph ... ted_States
Gives 79.3% white, hispanic or latino, 12.6% black, 5.2% asian.
Which would broadly speaking support your point and not mine.
It's quite a difficult one to judge, because should you look at the demography of the USA, or California or even LA? The reality is probably a mixture of the two, because obviously people go to Hollywood from all over the world, but in theory, you'd expect a greater number of people that grew up in the local area. And if this is the case, Hispanic and Asian actors are massively underrepresented compared to what you'd expect.