Citations:racebend

Verb: "to play the role of, or cast someone in the role of, a character of a different race or ethnicity"

 * 2010, Melodie Miu, "'Airbender' racist casting decision warrants boycott from audience", The Campanil (Mills College), Volume 95, Issue 7, 19 April 2010, page 3:
 * One of their missions is to directly contact studios that 'racebend,' or discriminate, against actors of color, and take action to protest or boycott those industries.
 * 2014, Anna Lee, "Persons of color need representation in Hollywood", The Falconer (The Torrey Pines High School, San Diego, California), Volume 40, Issue 2, 26 September 2014, page A7:
 * Hollywood does not just innocently “racebend” a few characters for the sake of hiring the best actors.
 * 2015, William Hart, "Racebending: Race, Adaptation and the Films I, Robot and I Am Legend", in The Fantastic Made Visible: Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen (eds. Matthew Wilhelm Kapell & Ace G. Pilkington), McFarland & Company (2015), ISBN 9781476619835, page 220:
 * Why do adapters racebend? What is the purpose of racebending? Surely one of the reasons is economical. Changes in the demographics of the viewing audience means that films need to have more diverse casts.
 * 2015, Kristen J. Warner, "ABC's Scandal and Black Women's Fandom", in Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century (ed. Elana Levine), University of Illinois (2015), ISBN 9780252097669, page 39:
 * Similar to [Denzel] Washington racebending to become Julius Caesar for an official production,
 * 2015, Adolfo Aranjuez, "Power from a Different Perspective: Race, Gender and Grief in Big Hero 6", Screen Education, Number 79, Spring 2015, page 11:
 * in which white Jake Gyllenhaal and Emma Stone, respectively – 'racebend' and play characters of Asian descent.
 * in which white Jake Gyllenhaal and Emma Stone, respectively – 'racebend' and play characters of Asian descent.