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Main points of: Starving for Diversity: Ideological Implications of Representation in the Hunger Games

Some Hunger Games fans were shocked to see African-American actors cast in supporting roles. (Why the heck were they shocked? )

One thing that really upset some was the casting of a black girl to play the part of Rue. (Rue was from District 11 where it seems most of the people are black. It's a plantation economy, run much like the plantations of the Old South which kept blacks as slaves.)

The series is a multilayered critique of power and conflict.

It was also a critique on the Iraq war and totalitarian governments.

It is also critical of American media industry.

Panem society has a considerable amount of ethnic mixing. (Note: this is not a film set in the present or even near present time. There have been climate disasters and at least one if not more than one war. Time was also needed to try to recover from all that, set up some kind of government, break the area up into distracts and set everything else going so this is very probably a couple to a few hundred years in the future.)

The same fans were upset blacks were cast to play Thresh (who is also from District 11) and Cinna.

Most of the tweets expressing dismay over black actors were teenagers.

Racism is often expressed in the 'unsaid.'

A question to keep in mind is that if different racial groups are included, what kind of roles do they fulfill?

Another question is what is the role of producers and media owners in making sure race/ethnicity has a diverse representation.

Racial minorities have been still pretty much kept to non-proportional representation and diversity.

Little of substance has changed in media.

There were around 5000 children's books published in 2011. Less than 1% were by or about African-Americans.

Mainstream media keep blacks in the same type of roles that go with old stereotypes.

Whitewashing is the casting of white actors in roles that should go to black actors.

Hunger Games closely parallels the film industry.

Familiar patterns of whiteness dominate the Hunger Games.

As to the type of roles given in relation to morality, intelligence and trustworthiness, a black actor was cast for the part of Cinna.

Rue would also fit that type of role, especially as she was a major help to Katniss.

Thresh is pictured as powerful, dangerous and unknowable.

Several characters can't be pinned down to one race. They might be Native American derived.

(It's interesting that in fantasy and science fiction blacks have played major roles. The 4400, Warehouse 13, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Luke Cage, Star Trek and Star Trek: Discovery are just some examples.)

(They also forgot to mention Boggs is black.)

(Where do we get our conceptions of races? Personal experience or mainly via the media?)