ABSTRACT
Today’s young generations, living vicariously through the lens borrowed from various forms of media face the challenge of identifying their authentic and genuine culture and conscientious and critical citizenship. Specifically, Hollywood’s continuous misrepresentation of race, emphasizing the “otherness,” not only impedes the American audience’s understanding of the world, but also, misinforms and misguides the youth audience outside the United States, leading an individual’s identity crisis to both a national and global concern.
Subsequently, teaching global citizenship education becomes an immense challenge in formal, informal, and non-formal educational settings, where young individuals from various political and historical backgrounds and cultural upbringings unknowingly rely on and share the standardized definitions and representations of race produced by Hollywood’s white patriarchal hegemony. As Hollywood firmly draws a line between the white elitist patriarchal culture, often perceived as the “superior” culture, and the “other,” the discussion of racial diversity becomes taxing, especially in classrooms, where Hollywood’s hegemonic portrayal of racism is considered the norm, as well as hard spaces outside of the Global North.
