From Feminist Frequency.
Lately, there has been a lot of commotion about whitewashing - casting Caucasian actors in roles instead of people of color - and "The Hunger Games." People have been insisting that the character of Rue shouldn't have been African American while others believe that Katniss Everdeen shouldn't have been white. It is extremely unfortunate that this is still happening in America, that people of color aren't given leading roles in films and that their stories are rarely told on the big screen. It really is. But I feel like the casting if Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss isn’t the best example of whitewashing considering it’s a movie based on a book as opposed to a brand new script - in which there are no definitive physical descriptions.
