Wow this is really fascinating. The media does shape the worlds opinion of us. Hell when I was a kid all I saw about Africa on tv was starving kids with flies on their face. It’s incredible to think that this one movie is reshaping people’s opinion of black people in a positive way.
‘Black Panther’ Is Groundbreaking, But It’s Shuri Who Could Change The World
‘Black Panther’ Is Groundbreaking, But It’s Shuri Who Could Change The World
By Walt Hickey
Here’s why: The volume of evidence shows that when audiences see on-screen representations of themselves, particularly aspirational ones, that experience can fundamentally change how they perceive their own place in the world. Black people have been
historically underrepresented on screen, and black
women in strong roles even more so. Shuri provides a science-y role model for black women, a group
distinctly underrepresented in STEM fields.
This potential is essential to the character and factors into Wright’s performance;
the actress told Vogue: “I hope it can spark someone to say, ‘I’m not a superhero, but I can be a scientist or build the next spaceship, like Shuri.’”
For example, a study titled “
In Pursuit of the MD: The Impact of Role Models, Identity Compatibility, and Belonging Among Undergraduate Women” in the journal Sex Roles found that when women in pre-med programs were exposed to short biographies of five successful female doctors, their interest in a career in medicine shot up (compared with a control group). More interestingly, their sense of belonging in their pre-med programs went up, as did their perception that their gender was compatible with their career aspirations.
Movies can have an even longer lasting impact. A good movie changes the audience, and we have tons of evidence to back that up:
Movies can also have direct, immediate effects on more mundane day-to-day decisions. Attendance at the American Museum of Natural History rose
20 percent after “
Night at the Museum” came out, U.S. tourism to New Zealand increased
23 percent after “
The Hobbit” hit theaters, and
Croatia’s tourism business has been booming since “
Game of Thrones” shot
some scenes there. Or, how about this? Drivers seem
more prone to speeding after The Fast and the Furious movies are released.
I could go on, but the point is this: On the one hand, sure, movies are a product engineered to optimize financial windfalls for a small group of corporations and intellectual property holders. But on the other hand, I personally got interested in math because of
Ian Malcolm, rock-star chaos theory mathematician in “Jurassic Park,” and you would not be reading this if not for that.
So “Black Panther” is a big deal for a lot of reasons, but Shuri is chief among them.
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