scholarly journals When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID‐19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yao Li ◽  
Harvey L. Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Model Minorities

Violence, Hmong American Visibility, and the Precariousness of Asian Race

PMLA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (5) ◽  
pp. 1752-1756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisa Schein ◽  
Ya-Megn Thoj
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
Korean American ◽  
American Student ◽  
Asian Race ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Model Minorities ◽  
Asian American Men ◽  
Hmong American

When the murders at Virginia Tech in spring of 2007 began to be processed, by mainstream media and Asian American commentators alike, in tenuously racial terms as the un/intelligible acts of a Korean American student, Seung-hui Cho, some observers of media racialization recalled the spectacularizations of Chai Soua Vang, the Hmong hunter who killed six white hunters in the woods of Wisconsin in 2004. Were these events likely to be discursively linked, and if so what effect would they produce? Would they destabilize tropes of Asian American men as studious, reserved, effeminate model minorities? Would we see the rise, or the return, of a racial menace in the form of gun-toting, ruthless, killer Asian males, and what would be the fallout? What difference would it make to discursive homogenization that one of the killers was Hmong, a member of a group that has articulated awkwardly if at all with prevailing images of Asian Americans?

Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism. By Mari Yoshihara. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003; pp. 242. $55 cloth, $19.95 paper; Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961. By Christina Klein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003; pp. 316. 55 cloth, $21.95 paper.

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-282
Author(s):  
Josephine Lee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
White Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
American Orientalism ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of

Since Edward Said's influential formulation, scholars in a variety of disciplines have unpacked orientalism in its various incarnations. Within American studies, theories of orientalism have been used to understand more fully both the relationship of the United States to Asia during the “Pacific century” and the history of racial formation and racism with regard to Asian Americans. One of the prevailing tendencies has been to posit the Oriental as that which is marginalized and excluded, as either the exotic Other or the yellow peril. Both Mari Yoshihara's Embracing the East and Christina Klein's Cold War Orientalism do much to refocus this discussion, using contexts that demonstrate how Asia and Asian Americans were not just treated as, to use Alexander Saxton's phrase, “the indispensable enemy,” but rather held, both politically and culturally, within a much more paradoxical “embrace.”

Asian Americans on Television

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Yeh Cheung ◽  
Kent A. Ono
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Digital Convergence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dream Research ◽  
Tv Shows

For the vast majority of TV history, Asian Americans have played a minimal yet nevertheless infamous role. From the “yellow peril” to the “model minority,” racial stereotypes have been used to characterize Asians and Asian Americans on the television screen. In the rare instances when Asian American actors did appear, they either were in minor roles or as figures from a bad racist dream. Research on Asian Americans on TV comes from many disciplines and cuts across multiple fields such as media studies and Asian American studies. This article discusses the early history of Asian Americans on TV, traces notable figures in contemporary television, and concludes with the role of digital convergence and the development of delivery and recovery platforms. It also provides an overview of scholarly literature written about Asian Americans on TV, including articles and books written about Asian American TV shows, the history of Asian American TV representation, and research on TV and digital media, including YouTube and other transmedia convergence cultural materials.

Asian Americans as Model Minorities? A Look at Their Academic Performance

1995 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Kao
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Model Minorities

Asian Americans and racism: When bad things happen to "model minorities."

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvin N. Alvarez ◽  
Linda Juang ◽  
Christopher T. H. Liang
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Model Minorities

scholarly journals “I Haven’t Done Anything to Be Polarizing”: Jeremy Lin’s Strategic Appropriation of Black Masculinity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Wong
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Basketball Player ◽  
Model Minorities ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Asian American Men

This thesis investigates the appropriation of Black masculinity by Asian American basketball player Jeremy Lin. Subjecting media coverage to a combination of content analysis and critical discourse analysis uncovers the presence of four appropriative themes of Asianness: (a) the supraethnic viability of Asianness; (b) the necessary defeat of Blackness; (c) the disallowance of anti-Asian sentiment; and (d) the presence of a helpful Black cohort. These themes are themselves given meaning by five racially magnetized frames that position Asian Americans in opposition to Blackness across multiple dimensions: (a) Asian Americans as model minorities; (b) Asian American men as emasculated; (c) Asian Americans as invisible; (d) Asian Americans as forever foreign; and (e) Asian and Black Americans as enemies. The results of this study suggest that Asian American men benefit from the appropriation of Blackness, but that this benefit is contingent upon their ability to uphold heterosexist, white supremacist ideologies. Keywords: Jeremy Lin, basketball, race

scholarly journals “I Haven’t Done Anything to Be Polarizing”: Jeremy Lin’s Strategic Appropriation of Black Masculinity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Wong
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Basketball Player ◽  
Model Minorities ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Asian American Men

This thesis investigates the appropriation of Black masculinity by Asian American basketball player Jeremy Lin. Subjecting media coverage to a combination of content analysis and critical discourse analysis uncovers the presence of four appropriative themes of Asianness: (a) the supraethnic viability of Asianness; (b) the necessary defeat of Blackness; (c) the disallowance of anti-Asian sentiment; and (d) the presence of a helpful Black cohort. These themes are themselves given meaning by five racially magnetized frames that position Asian Americans in opposition to Blackness across multiple dimensions: (a) Asian Americans as model minorities; (b) Asian American men as emasculated; (c) Asian Americans as invisible; (d) Asian Americans as forever foreign; and (e) Asian and Black Americans as enemies. The results of this study suggest that Asian American men benefit from the appropriation of Blackness, but that this benefit is contingent upon their ability to uphold heterosexist, white supremacist ideologies. Keywords: Jeremy Lin, basketball, race

scholarly journals The changing face of the “Yellow Peril” — representations of Asians and Asian Americans in the context of the “streaming revolution” in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-31
Author(s):  
Michał Witek
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Network Television ◽  
The Past ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Television Content ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Common ◽  
Popular Image

The aim of this article is a critical analysis of the changing landscape of American streaming and post-network television content offer in the context of Asians’ and Asian Americans’ representations. The focus of this analysis is primarily on the stereotypes — the mechanisms behind their construction and deconstruction, and their role in the shaping of the popular image of Asians and Asian Americans. The secondary goal is the attempt to show how the culturally constructed Other is constantly present in the common imagination of the TV and cinema audience, and how this construct influences production companies, audiences, and showrunners in the USA. The question of the postulated “change” in the representation of Asian and Asian Americans, and their visibility remains open for further debate. However, I have attempted to restrict it to the model example of two series over the past twenty years.

Discrimination Against Asian Americans: How do Model Minorities Fare?

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genie Chartier ◽  
Barbara A. Fritzsche
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Model Minorities
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