New Study Reveals ‘Hollywood Is An Epicenter Of Cultural Inequality’

*What’s that saying about “the more things change the more they remain the same?” Only 5.3 percent of speaking roles went to Latin@s. VL

By Caolina Moreno, Huffington Post Latino Voices (2 minute read)

Hollywood’s 2015 diversity report card is in and the results are a disappointing case of déjà vu.

In the latest study by the Media, Diversity & Social Change (MDSC) Initiative at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, researchers found little improvement in 2015 films when it came to the representation of women, people of color and LGBT characters.

In the top 100 films of 2015, the report found only 31.4 percent of all speaking characters were female (a figure that hasn’t changed since 2007), only 12.2 were black, 5.3 percent were Latino and 3.9 percent were Asian.

In fact, out of the 100 films analyzed, 40 films had no Latino speaking characters and 49 had no Asian speaking characters.

Yikes.

The study also found that less than 1 percent of speaking characters identified as LGBT and, for the first time, assessed characters with disabilities, who made up just 2.4 percent of all speaking roles.

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