Mixed Race America

Thoughts, musings, and observations about race in America, particularly the mixing of race--in all the ways you can imagine: people of various races interacting, people of various races not wanting to mix, issues of purity, hybridity, multiplicity, heterogeneity, and any other way you can describe the blending, melding, melting, tossing, turning, churning of race relations in the United States.

Showing posts with label yellowface. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yellowface. Show all posts
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Cloud Atlas Review Part 2: Yellowface & Orientalism

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So here's part 2 of my 3 part review of Cloud Atlas ( click here for part 1 ).  Today's topic: the film's use of yellowface and...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

R.I.P.: Jennifer Jones, actress

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Have any of you ever seen the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing ? It stars the late William Holden as a war correspondent covering ...
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Sunday, December 2, 2007

Promoting more Asian American Artists

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The New York Times has two articles prominently displaying two different Asian American artists involved in theater. Paul Chan, a video ar...
Monday, October 8, 2007

Little Buddha or Why Keanu Reeves should not be in this film

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I finally got around to seeing the Bernardo Bertolucci film Little Buddha . Bertolucci's big American claim to fame was The Last Empero...
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A 40-something professor of contemporary American literature and Asian American literature interested in issues of social justice and specifically how to create spaces to talk comfortably (and sometimes uncomfortably) about race.
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