- While Black actors are now more numerous in film, it’s an open question as to how well they’re being represented. In the top movies of 1996:
- Black female movie characters shown using vulgar profanity: 89%.
- White female movie characters shown using vulgar profanity: 17%.
- Black female movie characters shown being physically violent: 56%.
- White female movie characters shown being physically violent: 11%.
- Black female movie characters shown being restrained: 55%.
- White female movie characters shown being restrained: 6%.
– University of Chicago Press
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