Film and race: How racially skewed are the Oscars?

Film and race: How racially skewed are the Oscars? | The Economist:
How racially skewed are the Oscars?
FOR the 20 actors nominated for an Oscar all to be white could at best be seen as a surprise.
For that to be true two years running is, to many, a scandal.
While there will be no empty seats at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony on February 28th—live television does not permit such things—there may be a lot of m

issing faces.
Confronted with what is seen as a “whitewash”, many prominent black Americans are saying they will boycott the ceremony.
In fact, as our analysis of film casts and awards shows, the number of black actors winning Oscars in this century has been pretty much in line with the size of America's overall black population. 
But this does not mean Hollywood has no problems of prejudice.
As the data show, it clearly does.
...Of course the data are not random.
Yet, despite the 2015-2016 whiteout, an analysis of Oscar selections since 2000 suggests that the imbalances are industry-wide, not primarily to do with Academy voters.
And they affect all ethnic minorities.
Oscar nominations have not dramatically under-represented black actors. 
Instead, they have greatly over-represented white ones. 
Blacks are 12.6% of the American population, and 10% of Oscar nominations since 2000 have gone to black actors. 
But just 3% of nominations have gone to their Hispanic peers (16% of the population), 1% to those with Asian backgrounds, and 2% to those of other heritage (see chart).
Black actors get speaking roles in rough proportion to their percentage of America’s population, according to a study of 600 top films from 2007-2013 at the Annenberg Center for Communication and Journalism. (See “film roles” in the chart above.)
Again, Latinos and Asians do much worse..."