I'd take a good telling of our story, told by whomever, over the essentialist tokenism of mere representation any day.
, one so patently absurd that of course we're debating this in 2023: Some have expressed dismay that Oppenheimer, who was Jewish, is played by a gentile, the Irish actor Cillian Murphy.
The anxiety about"letting strangers play us" or Jewface, as it's been called, is fed by the voluminous attention trained recently on blackface. Yet these are not the same. Blackface understandably evokes visceral disgust and moral outrage because of its uniquely ghoulish part in American history. There's also the illustriouslyhistory of old Hollywood casting white actors to play Asians and Hispanics, whether in laziness or malice.
And that's the real issue: authenticity. Culture wars are still waged, influencers made, art canceled, and elections won over the search for noble, inner truth. Though identity politics would have you believe that authenticity is rooted in biology, in our heart of hearts, most of us still believe that human empathy mediated by art can transcend the idiosyncrasies of the"lived experience." If you don't, you haven't been experiencing true art.
Are we actually getting closer to any kind of truth with this exercise? Or is the salami being cut so thin that, as Kramerabout Jewface on her podcast."In a time when the importance of representation is seen as so essential and so front and center, why does ours constantly get breached even today in the thick of it?"
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