(https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/06/08/462395722/racial-impostor-syndrome-here-are-your-stories)
This week's reading included a piece by Stuart Hall, "Cultural Identity and Diaspora," where he talks about his own narrative being a Jamaican English man. He lived in Jamaica and moved to England, this is part of the Carribean, making him part of the Caribbean diaspora. With that, he started his piece off with the movie portrayals of people of color these days, which allowed him to start a real conversation on contemporary issues. He even made it clear that these problems of cultural identity are written / spoken "from a particular place and time, from a history and ac culture which is specific. What we say is always 'in context', positioned." I really appreciated the way that they framed this conversation that it is an ongoing dilemma that throughout history will always stay an issue, but only certain perspectives and points are going to bigger at some point or smaller, relative to the entire history, but still feel like one of the most significant battles as they're the most relevant to their time. In this time that he is writing from, there is this issue of identity as a production, where there is never a complete or proper portrayal of a group of people or that person because the producers miss the authenticity and proper authority that is needed to make a persona that doesn't offend someone.
(https://www.pixelle.co/krtsch-2/)
Question: is the only way to avoid problems in the portrayal of cultural identity in media is to just have more ethnic folks of that group work on it or is it fine if the producers do enough research before filming, etc.?
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