Whatever college you decide to attend, Kai Brown, will likely have film courses that cover the history of the casting practice known as 'whitewashing'--where white actors are casted in historically non-white character roles, a practice that is as old as Hollywood itself. Whitewashing, in fact, is related to blackface performance. In the early 20th century, white actors caricatured minority characters by wearing yellowface or blackface while exaggerating what white culture perceived to be the behavior Asians or African-Americans. In this way, white actors contributed to stereotypes about minorities which persist even today in American movies. Keanu Reeves CAN play Siddartha Gautama Buddha in the movie “Little Buddha” as is his right but in doing so he contributes to the tradition of racism in Hollywood. Professor Schurtz CAN and DID play a black man but unfortunately also asked her students to attend her performance which was not appropriate even though it took place in her home.