racebendingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From race +‎ bending, following the pattern of genderbending. Popularized amid fan reaction to racebending in the casting of the 2010 film The Last Airbender (film).

名詞

racebending (uncountable)

1. (informal, often derogatory) The act of playing the role of, or casting someone in the role of, a character of different race or ethnicity.
   • 2013, Lee Jian Yun, "Asian Americans on the Rise: How YouTube Changed the Game", The Monash Gazette (Monash Ununiversity), Issue #2 2013, page 71:

     Hilarity ensues as the director tries to justify his decision with famous racebending examples from Hollywood (The faux slit-eyes in Cloud Atlas, anyone?).

   • 2014, Zhana Johnnson, "Bend It Like Jordan", The Xavierite (Saint Xavier University), Volume 83, Number 17, 26 February 2014, page 9:

     Not only did the producers cast actors in their late twenties but also had the audacity to assign Michael B. Jordan (Fruitside Station, That Awkward Moment) to the role of the Human Torch/Johnny Storm.

     What has happened here is a wonderful example of racebending.

   • 2015, Kristen J. Warner, “ABC's Scandal and Black Women's Fandom”, in Elana Levine, editor, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, University of Illinois, →ISBN, page 39:

     As an example of racebending on a different level from that of fandom but which still utilizes a similar approach, in 2005, Denzel Washington portrayed Julius Caesar in a revival of Shakespeare's play.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:racebending.

動詞

racebending

1. present participle and gerund of racebend

参考

• blackface, redface, yellowface

アナグラム

• Grecian bend

別の表記

• racebending

名詞

race-bending ‎(uncountable)

1. (informal, often pejorative) Playing the role of, or casting someone in the role of, someone of different race or ethnicity
   • 2000 September 1, Chang, Robert S., Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State, New York; London: NYU Press, ISBN 9780814716113, OL 8044700M, page 124:

     But while gender-bending — and for that matter, race-bending — may indeed "do" important political work, we must approach such performances with caution.

   • 2002, Echols, Alice, Shaky Ground: The '60s and Its Aftershocks, New York; Chicester: Columbia University Press, ISBN 9780231106702, OL 3950187M, page 194:

     They stress the challenge that race-bending white rockers posed to the American color line.

   • 2012 October 2, Hansen, Mark B. N., Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media, New York; Milton Park: Routledge, ISBN 9781135878863, OL 25419984M, page 274:

     Certainly the documented prevalence of online gender- and race-bending would lend strong support to such an interpretation; […]

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:racebending.