[ SECRET POST #4621 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4621 ⌋

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[seashadows]

Ooh, I can answer this one!

The original "Annie" is set in the 1930s, when there was still a media stigma in the United States against kids with red hair (that's why the scene where Grace Farrell requests Annie from the orphanage focuses so heavily on her hair color). That stigma is the same place that the term "redheaded stepchild" came from - it has a lot to do with prejudice against Irish people. However, in 2014, red hair no longer carries the same implications in the United States; to keep the same plot point of a child with marginalized looks or ancestry, it made more sense for Annie to be Black.

[(Anonymous)]

OP - This, exactly! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Is that why fictional redheads keep being made black?

[(Anonymous)]

I was just wondering that, too.

What's interesting is that fictional redheads, even when protagonists, were usually portrayed as trouble-makers, brash, poor, etc., which kind of went along with the historical view of them as being lesser somehow than other white people. So by doing these remakes, they're changing the race but keeping the trope, which arguably and ironically reinforces a view of black people as lesser.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but the redheads in question were then also shown to be brave, kind, clever etc. so the historical trope of "you look down on this person but actually they're awesome and you're prejudiced and wrong!" is still in play.