Why seeing marginalized communities in pop culture matters
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 08:00
in Psychology & Sociology
It was just four years ago that the social media hashtag #OscarsSoWhite was trending, helping to spark a national outcry regarding the lack of diversity in Oscar-nominated films and Hollywood in general. But it's not just the film and TV industry that fail to represent the diversity of our society, it's most forms of popular culture. Can this be dismissed as "identity politics"? Why should we care?