feature: cntrst website calculates total whiteness of main casts in over 20,000 movies

It’s no secret (or, at least it shouldn’t be) that white people and men are overrepresented in just about every faction of life. After another year of #OscarsSoWhite, a website called CNTRST is calculating the total percentage of ‘whiteness’ in mainstream films. Most popular movies hover around 85 percent, with movies like The Huntsman Winter’s War, Carol, The 5th Wave, The Revenant clocking in at a full 100%. It’s worth noting that whites make up just 63 percent of the total United States population. 50 percent of those people (31.5 percent) are white men who account for 62 percent of all lead roles. In other words, white dudes take up twice as much space on the silver screen than they do in real life.

http://cntrst.exposed/

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