Maybe I'm being too generous, but I've always seen Holden as at least partly Asian / East-Asian. In-universe he has the DNA of 12 different adults, but I concede that he looks pretty white.
Personally, where I had seen whiteness as a subject (if at all) was in Amos and (in season 4) Murty, as acknowledging whiteness as a colonialism and b…
Maybe I'm being too generous, but I've always seen Holden as at least partly Asian / East-Asian. In-universe he has the DNA of 12 different adults, but I concede that he looks pretty white.
Personally, where I had seen whiteness as a subject (if at all) was in Amos and (in season 4) Murty, as acknowledging whiteness as a colonialism and brutality hidden by marks of authority.
In general, Season 4 is a bit more relevant. Although both the "official," corporate interests and the refugee-coded settlers are ethnically diverse, the Belters are much *more* diverse and the corporatists are strongly coded white. In general I feel that season did a good job of threading a needle between current issues and the theoretical potential issues of the show's premise.
The actor Steven Strait is white; he has some Italian heritage which may be why he reads possibly POC? obviously if they wanted a non white actor they could have cast one though.
Amos is I think insistently positioned as a servant/retainer/bodyguard, not as an authority figure. There's maybe something about working class whiteness there, but I don't think it's very thoughtful if so. haven't gotten to season 4 yet so I can't speak to that!
Reading this, I started thinking of Chloe Bennet (Skye/Daisy in MARVEL AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.)—who is originally presented as White though the actor herself is mixed-race Chinese/Anglo-American (her birth name is "Chloé Wang", and she was a pop singer under her birth name in China when she was younger). As the series went on, her mixed-race parentage became more overt, and they had her dealing more with Ming-Na Wen's Melinda May.
I remember saying the show could use more non-White representation in Season 1, then somebody pointed out to me Bennet's heritage.
Maybe I'm being too generous, but I've always seen Holden as at least partly Asian / East-Asian. In-universe he has the DNA of 12 different adults, but I concede that he looks pretty white.
Personally, where I had seen whiteness as a subject (if at all) was in Amos and (in season 4) Murty, as acknowledging whiteness as a colonialism and brutality hidden by marks of authority.
In general, Season 4 is a bit more relevant. Although both the "official," corporate interests and the refugee-coded settlers are ethnically diverse, the Belters are much *more* diverse and the corporatists are strongly coded white. In general I feel that season did a good job of threading a needle between current issues and the theoretical potential issues of the show's premise.
The actor Steven Strait is white; he has some Italian heritage which may be why he reads possibly POC? obviously if they wanted a non white actor they could have cast one though.
Amos is I think insistently positioned as a servant/retainer/bodyguard, not as an authority figure. There's maybe something about working class whiteness there, but I don't think it's very thoughtful if so. haven't gotten to season 4 yet so I can't speak to that!
Reading this, I started thinking of Chloe Bennet (Skye/Daisy in MARVEL AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.)—who is originally presented as White though the actor herself is mixed-race Chinese/Anglo-American (her birth name is "Chloé Wang", and she was a pop singer under her birth name in China when she was younger). As the series went on, her mixed-race parentage became more overt, and they had her dealing more with Ming-Na Wen's Melinda May.
I remember saying the show could use more non-White representation in Season 1, then somebody pointed out to me Bennet's heritage.