Citations:racebend

English citations of racebend and race-bend

Verb: "to play the role of, or cast someone in the role of, a character of a different race or ethnicity"

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• 2010, Melodie Miu, "'Airbender' racist casting decision warrants boycott from audience", The Campanil (Mills College), Volume 95, Issue 7, 19 April 2010, page 3:

  One of their missions is to directly contact studios that 'racebend,' or discriminate, against actors of color, and take action to protest or boycott those industries.

• 2011 December 26, David (quoting Rich Johnston, "Boxseting Day – The Anglophile DVD List 2011", Bleed It Cool), “Lesser-known British TV recommendations”, in rec.arts.tv‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <07dhf71m2j4rc8ug7t9v984ldn9qcgnt5q@4ax.com>:

  Facejacker has brought those cut out characters to life as Kayvan Novak racebends all over the place to bring these grotesques to live.

• 2014, Anna Lee, "Persons of color need representation in Hollywood", The Falconer (The Torrey Pines High School, San Diego, California), Volume 40, Issue 2, 26 September 2014, page A7:

  Hollywood does not just innocently “racebend” a few characters for the sake of hiring the best actors.

• 2015, William Hart, "Racebending: Race, Adaptation and the Films I, Robot and I Am Legend", in The Fantastic Made Visible: Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen (eds. Matthew Wilhelm Kapell & Ace G. Pilkington), McFarland & Company (2015), →ISBN, page 220:

  Why do adapters racebend? What is the purpose of racebending? Surely one of the reasons is economical. Changes in the demographics of the viewing audience means that films need to have more diverse casts.

• 2015, Kristen J. Warner, "ABC's Scandal and Black Women's Fandom", in Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century (ed. Elana Levine), University of Illinois (2015), →ISBN, page 39:

  Similar to [Denzel] Washington racebending to become Julius Caesar for an official production, […]

• 2015, Adolfo Aranjuez, "Power from a Different Perspective: Race, Gender and Grief in Big Hero 6", Screen Education, Number 79, Spring 2015, page 11:

  […] in which white Jake Gyllenhaal and Emma Stone, respectively – 'racebend' and play characters of Asian descent.

Verb: "to defy or traverse traditional racial categories or boundaries"

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• 2002, Alice Echols, Shaky Ground: The '60s and Its Aftershocks, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 194:

  They stress the challenge that race-bending white rockers posed to the American color line.

• 2004 September 7, Guy Garcia, The New Mainstream: How the Multicultural Consumer Is Transforming American Business, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OL, page 267:

  These assimilating awakeners of the American dream, these de facto defenders of the founding faith, this race-bending, world-mending tribe, may in the end be the legitimate custodians and inheritors not only of our country's future, but also of its heart and soul.