Any TV producer who wants to court Asian Pacific American viewership benefits from having a very low bar to hurdle. If an Asian character pops up in a sitcom and the proceeding 26 minutes aren’t full of lazy racism, it’s generally considered a small triumph. If you have a show with several Asian Pacific Islander […]
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ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: How far have we come? ‘Hawaii Five-O’ 40 years later
December 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: A Kung Fu Christmas and the Impact of A-Pop
November 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Just found out that a “Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special” recently aired and will air again this Saturday Nov. 27. Fortunately, it looks like more than a quick cash-in. Dustin Hoffman and Jack Black reprise their roles and, according to the Onion A.V. Club (one of the very few sites whose reviews I almost always […]
ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK: People of Color Dancing at the Box Office This Winter
December 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
This holiday season’s top box office earners include a surprisingly large number of films about people of color. The controversial “Precious,†a gritty story about an obese, pregnant black teen, cracked the top 10 and “The Blind Side,†an “inspirational†story about a rich white lady who takes in a troubled, black teen, and turns […]
ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: Stereotypes Can Save the Balloon Boy’s Japanese Mom
October 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
In last week’s column, I wrote about the refreshing lack of a racial angle in the media coverage of the so-called “balloon boy†incident. Just as we were going to press though, I came across an article on the ABC News Website that places a large amount of the blame for the incident on Japanese […]
ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: Race and Reality: The ‘Balloon Boy,’ Jon & Kate
October 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
On Wednesday last week, a six-year-old hapa boy captured the attention of the world when it was reported that he was trapped in a homemade helium balloon floating 15,000 feet in the air. Falcon Heene, dubbed “the balloon boy,†replaced President Obama’s New Orleans town hall meeting as the day’s big story on cable news. […]
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