Week 3: Race (Asian Americans)

Overview

• Asian Americans always seem as “foriginers”

• Culture saw race in “black and white” terms (literally)

“Sojourners”

Name given to 19th century Asian laborers

Model minority

structure that pits minorities against each other, puts Asian Americans at the top "(“The best minority”)

Early film representation

• Asians represented as inferiors, benefit from white intefernce

  • Passive pheasants

  • villinous tyrants

• 60’s and 70s started to see a recovery in indetity

Representation ideas

• representation not pos. or neg.

• only mobilized and interpreted based on context