From stereotypes to superheroes: The changing face of African American actors in Hollywood

From stereotypes to superheroes: The changing face of African American actors in Hollywood

- To borrow Simone de Beauvoir's idea from The Second Sex, the white man occupied the role of the self, or subject; the black man was the object, the other — who existed mostly to explore racial themes. In defining black people exclusively as Other, white people effectively denied them their humanity in ...