Plasticity in June

Narrow ranges of representation for minorities and marginalized voices have been on screen since the beginning of film. In the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, viewers see a blatantly racist and harmful stereotype of Black men as animalistic beasts who have an insatiable thirst for the virginity of white women and threatening dominance over white people in general. The cast is all-white and only permits Black people to be represented by white men in Black face.