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<\/a>Academy Awards nominations luncheon honoring 2012\u2019s nominees. Photo courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Infographic by Lee and Low Books<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n by\u00a0<\/strong>Jamilah King<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s what we know about the Oscars: they\u2019re Hollywood\u2019s penultimate celebration of achievement in film. And the people who will decide them are generally\u00a0old, white men<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n That last point has increasingly become a problem as America\u2019s movie-going demographics have changed dramatically over the past several decades. The country is growing more racially diverse, but our films \u2014 particularly the ones that reach Oscar consideration \u2014 don\u2019t often reflect those changes. It\u2019s a structural problem, of course. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts the Sciences, the group that votes for the Oscars, is nearly 94 percent white and 77 percent male. Oscars voters have a median age of 62 and people younger than 50 constitute just 14 percent of the Academy\u2019s membership. Black voters make up just 2 percent of the academy, and Latinos make up an even smaller percentage. Check out this infographic from Lee and Low Books:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (Click here for a larger image<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n So even though hits like \u201c12 Years a Slave\u201d and \u201cLee Daniels\u2019 The Butler\u201d have led some to describe this as the \u201cyear of the black film,\u201d it\u2019s still yet another year of the white male voter who will decide its significance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (h\/t\u00a0Lee and Low<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
![Click here for a larger image<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\nSo even though hits like \u201c12 Years a Slave\u201d and \u201cLee Daniels\u2019 The Butler\u201d have led some to describe this as the \u201cyear of the black film,\u201d it\u2019s still yet another year of the white male voter who will decide its significance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n(h\/t\u00a0Lee and Low<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n>via:\u00a0http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2014\/02\/old_white_men_will_mostly_decide_this_weekends_oscars.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+racewireblog+%28Colorlines.com%29<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, February 27 2014 RACE AND\u00a0CULTURE WITH JAMILAH KING Infographic Illustrates the Structural Racism of the Oscars by\u00a0Jamilah King Here\u2019s what we know about the Oscars: they\u2019re Hollywood\u2019s penultimate celebration of achievement in film. And the people who will decide them are generally\u00a0old, white men. That last point has increasingly become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176433038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176433038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176433038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176433083,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176433038\/revisions\/176433083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176433038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176433038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176433038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.leeandlow.com\/images\/Academy_Awards_Infographic-lg.jpg\"){kind=link}