“Evelyn Is a POC”: On The Continued Whitewashing In The Divergent Series.
Reblogged from The Fangirl:
#Weneeddiversebooks but we also need to STOP whitewashing the characters of color in film adaptations of diverse books. Considering all the support the #Weneeddiversebooks campaign has gotten, it's disappointing to see all those many allies go silent when the announcement went out about the whitewashing casting of Naomi Watts as Evelyn Johnson-Eaton. A character who Roth herself proclaimed to be a "POC" aka person of color. I guess it's easier to support diversity when it doesn't require you to do anything too uncomfortable, like admit a popular YA author is a silent accomplice to racism.
