a handful of older women also complained that we were too light-skinned, one saying that the piece would only be effective if we were "really dark."
I disagree with this because there are other minorities besides darker skinned people that have had stereotypical assumptions told about them.
The stereotypes about nonwhite people that were continuously reinforced by the ethnographic displays are still alive in high culture and the mass media.
This is very much true.
A critically acclaimed young African-American poet was surprised to learn last year that he had been promoted by a Nuyorican Poet's Cafe impresario as a former L.A. gang member, which he never was. And while performing Border Brujoin the late 1980s, Gomez-Pena encountered numerous presenters and audience members who were disappointed that he was not a "real shaman" and that his "tongues" were not Nahuatl but a fictitious language
Reading this paragraph reminds me of all of the misperceptions of people that are told. This topic was brought up in another one of my classes and it's crazy to see it happening again here.
Columbus, the figure who began as a symbol of Eurocentrism and the American entrepreneurial spirit, ended up being devalued by excessive reproduction and bad acting
Its crazy how the told story about Columbus is so off from the actual story.