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devohoneybee at 08:02am on 13/02/2011
devohoneybee at 08:02am on 13/02/2011New York Times article on the stunning whiteness (even more than usual) of this year's crop of Oscar Nominated films.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/movies/awardsseason/13movies.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28
My feeling is that Hollywood has never come even close to depicting the kind of racism that that people of color encounter on a daily basis. I work with military veterans in New Mexico, many of who identify variously as Hispanic, Latino, Native American, or African American, and almost ALL of whom speak of various degrees of bullying, stereotyping, and out and out race violence they experienced in the military, which is of course just a concentrated microcosm of American culture at large -- the America that for the most part never comes in front of a Hollywood lens. This underlying and constant barrage is demoralizing for sure, and may be a substrate that potentiates post traumatic stress disorder in those who are subjected to military trauma. As a psychologist, I'm left with no official "category" of diagnosis or treatment guidelines for subtle (or not so subtle), daily race trauma. (I do my best to begin with BELIEVING and validating what I hear from them... and go from there to develop narratives that acknowledge the reality of their experience and make some meaningful and useful sense of it.)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/movies/awardsseason/13movies.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28
My feeling is that Hollywood has never come even close to depicting the kind of racism that that people of color encounter on a daily basis. I work with military veterans in New Mexico, many of who identify variously as Hispanic, Latino, Native American, or African American, and almost ALL of whom speak of various degrees of bullying, stereotyping, and out and out race violence they experienced in the military, which is of course just a concentrated microcosm of American culture at large -- the America that for the most part never comes in front of a Hollywood lens. This underlying and constant barrage is demoralizing for sure, and may be a substrate that potentiates post traumatic stress disorder in those who are subjected to military trauma. As a psychologist, I'm left with no official "category" of diagnosis or treatment guidelines for subtle (or not so subtle), daily race trauma. (I do my best to begin with BELIEVING and validating what I hear from them... and go from there to develop narratives that acknowledge the reality of their experience and make some meaningful and useful sense of it.)