I think the larger issues that make “recoloring” black actors more problematic is that there are relatively none or few in these films to whom such does not happen, while there are plenty of white actors who aren’t “recolored” in the same films. There’s Quill and many other white characters in Guardians; there are…

It’s absolutely possible they might be called something different—but the separation of American English from British English was, in part, a consciously-chosen political argument made by people like Noah Webster of Webster’s Dictionary fame (which was first printed decades after the Revolution in the early 1800s, and…

I think you highlight another problem here with Rowlings’ take, though: she refers to “the Native American ‘skin walker.’” That is, she’s erases the diversity of Native American culture by treating Native Americans as if they're a heterogenous monolith. That different tribes exist and hold different ideas and…

A shining moment of the best of American political discourse: a male politician threatens to beat a female politician.