LOS ANGELES — The Media Action Network for Asian Americans has released a statement criticizing the new Warner Brothers film, “Cloud Atlas,” which it said has been promoted as “artistically groundbreaking because its actors swap racial and sexual identities — as business-as-usual in its exclusion and offensive yellow-faced renditions of Asian people.” The multi-ethnic epic […]
Asian American media group criticizes use of yellowface in ‘Cloud Atlas’
November 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Nichi Bei as a Gateway to Community
September 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
When I first started writing for YO! Youth Outlook in 2004, I had no idea it would bring me closer to the Japanese American community. The subject matter, mostly stories of the lives of Asian American refugees, didn’t strike me as something the community would be interested in. I grew up both inside and outside […]
What’s oppression of a minority in a world with no majority?
On March 4, CNN published a story that shocked me. The headline, both eye catching and ridiculous, read, “Are whites racially oppressed?” As Angry Asian Man said, “NO.” The article looks into what CNN calls “racial jujitsu,” whites adopting the language and protest tactics of an embattled minority group. They cite conservatives, like talk show […]