New Website Aims to Create Comprehensive Database of anti-Asian Media Stereotypes, But…
Negative, oftentimes racist, portrayals of Asian Americans have persisted in Western media for over a century. When we are not…
Tag: Stereotypes
Top-ranked running back Soso Jamabo references song that fetishizes Asian women in UCLA commit
(H/T @_eeekric16_) I don’t follow football much — let alone college football — so I wasn’t aware until about mid-morning…
Minorities Trapped in Tropes: The Conservative Right’s Cognitive Dissonance on POC Humanity
Earlier this year, unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson; earlier this month, a…
Quentin Tarentino and the RZA: The Men with the Orientalist Fetishes
Last night, I did a really dumb thing. I watched The Man With the Iron Fists, directed by and starring…
NOC: The Walking Dead’s Ongoing “Black Man Problem”
Originally posted at The Nerds of Color I wrote in one post during The Nerds of Color’s Walker Week that…
Beyond the Bad and the Ugly: a summit on Asian American stereotypes, March 23 @ JANM in LA
If you’re going to be in the Los Angeles, California area on March 23, take the day to stop by…
Racial Hate in a Post-9/11 Second Amendment America
Yesterday, a man walked into a temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and opened fire with a legally-purchased automatic handgun. Ten…
K Town, Episode 2 Recap: Why You Don’t Piss Off Drunk Korean Girls
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xCR9kfRvg0 I hadn’t even had time to hit “Publish” on my K Town episode 1 recap when episode 2 was released.…
K Town, Episode 1 Recap: Welcome to K-Town
It’s been two years (almost to the day) since the announcement that Tyrese Gibson’s production company announced its intention to…
So, She Wants To Defend Asian Fetishism
Earlier this week, a Huffington Post blogger Vivienne Chen wrote an article — So, He Likes You Because You’re Asian —…
A Potential New Stereotype: “Asian Men Hate Shirts”
With all the buzz surrounding K-Town on the blogosphere, Jen over at Disagrasian warns us to tone down the joking. And…
TMZ Has “K-Town” Cast Video
TMZ has a “K-Town” cast video to go along with the leaked Facebook images. It’s truly as crazy as we…