Hollywood has largely erased Muslims from our screens, but when they appear the same violent tropes are used. Riz Ahmed wants to change that.
Hollywood’s unions are gatekeepers to the entertainment industry, yet Black crew members say getting access for recognition for minority members is hard.According to the USC study, less than 10% of the movies surveyed included a Muslim character in a speaking role and 76.4 % were male. Only 4.4% of Muslim characters filled primary roles in the cast.
About two thirds of Muslim characters in the 200 films were depicted as Middle Eastern or North African, about 21% were Asian and only 5.6% were Black or African American. The study’s researchers found Muslim characters were most often rooted in times and places that promoted them as “foreign” or “other,” or were set in some fantastical past as with Walt Disney’s 2019 “Aladdin.”
“This is a unique moment for this research to come out,” said Noorain Khan, director in the president’s office for the Ford Foundation. “So many of the challenges that so many communities face are rooted in negative, entrenched cultural narratives.”said it will offer a first of its kind fellowship for Muslim creators in partnership with Ahmed, who will help select the first crop of seven to 10 candidates for later this year.
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