Research Question

“What effects does whitewashing have on historical figures?”

When I first heard of the term Whitewashing I thought it was about race, and while it is sometimes, it is not only that. I first heard about whitewashing when my highschool teacher talked about how The Hate U Give’s movie was different from the book and how they had to “whitewash” it for the more general audience. I instantly became interested in the topic but that was that. Over time whitewashing has been the back of my head, and I kept thinking of other things that are whitewashed. I started to notice things and people that are whitewashed and my interset grew even bigger.

While doing research I expect to find many historical figures who might have been whitewashed and I am looking forward to seeing who did and the reasons they were. I expect to find this because a lot of original stories and events are usually too graphic or may be considered to be inappropriate for some people. While I was doing my own researchI found it interesting that there are other types of “washing” as well such as redwashing, in which orginzations, companies, etc, pretend to care about social equality in order to gain financially.

If while I’m doing research and I come across information that goes against my I had expected to find I would examine the information and see if I can use it in another claim or question this will save time and I would still be doing something I am interested in. If that’s not possible I would find a different topic which I hope doesn’t happen as it will be time consuming and I might not find a topic that I am into such as this one.

Genres that I think would be very good chance of providing me with good information would be non fiction genres such as: articles, as they would talk about new incidents and/or old ones, research papers or studies might have something that could be useful and well researched, and autobiography or biography I think would be good to find the raw events or things that those people did.