www.artsjournal.com/newbeans: Over on Facebook, my co-worker Sam Hurwitt reports an audition listing in San Francisco that requests “No obvious ethnicity” for a role. His friends, when asked, guessed that statement meant everything from “mixed” to “white” to my favorite: “‘whitable’ or ‘passable’ or ‘non-threatening ethnic looking person’.”
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My Interp class' topic was "Race and Otherness", and a lot of the topics that we discussed are very relevant to this article. There is a concept called "whiteness", which is the idea that white people view themselves as the universal norm - the banknote exemplifies this really well, as the bank judged that the neutral ethnicity was Caucasian. This concept not only brings white people to view people who belong to races different from their own as "others", it also leads said "others" to be impacted by this prejudice and feel abnormal, no fitting the supposedly universal standard of white skin. The other issue brought up by the article of whether or not non-whites should be especially valued for their skin color is also a demonstration of that idea of "otherness".
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