The third study from USC’s Norman Lear Center and the immigration media advocacy nonprofit Define American analyzed 79 scripted series from 2020 to 2022.
Over the past two television seasons, representation of Black and Asian Pacific Islander immigrant characters at least doubled, but that coincided with a drop in Latino representation from half of all
immigrant characters to just 34%. That underrepresents the actual proportion of U.S. immigrants who are Latino, which is 44%. On the other hand, API immigrant characters’ 27% share is now proportionate with reality.
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