Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Sendhil Ramamurthy (Sort Of)

George Clooney. Courtesy: hilaryshepard.com

or Clooney’s best dude and sometime co-star.

Brad Pitt. Courtesy: nadinejolie.com

In fact, Pitt’s early acting years are grounded in the blond-and-blue physical-ideal roles, from Thelma and Louise to Legends of the Fall to Interview with the Vampire. However, even he tired of–and tried to play against–these roles, if the bored look on his face throughout Troy is any indication.

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But Hollywood is simply the most recent echo chamber of whiteness-as-eternal-and-eternally-beautiful. When I was a nerdy schoolgirl, I swear that I checked out D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths from my Catholic elementary school library more than any other book. I loved that book and, to this day, I want it on my bookshelf, part childhood nostalgia and part coffee-table book. But I also need to be real about it–the authors imagined the gods to look like this:

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