Study: Latina Women Most Likely to Be Naked On Screen

Academy Award-nominated actress
and producer Salma Hayek.

Hispanics are dramatically underrepresented and hypersexualized.  In contrast to the representative numbers on black and Asian characters, only 4.9% of speaking characters in the years surveyed were Hispanic. Compare that to the 16.3% of the U.S. population that is Hispanic -- and the fact that Latino moviegoers buy 25% of all theater tickets -- and the numbers are appalling.

Drama Desk- and BAFTA-nominated
actress Cameron Díaz and Academy
Award-winning actress Penélope Cruz.

Check out Inkoo Kang's blog in Indiewire regarding the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC) study that "confirms what we already know: Hollywood sucks at portraying racial diversity" by clicking here.

To read a comparable story in Spanish, check out the El Especial article "Hollywood prefiere latinas sexys y con poca ropa" by clicking here.