About Face: How sex and race are dividing Asian Americans

About Face: How sex and race are dividing Asian Americans

Stereotypes Entertainers Actors Sexism Movies Television programs

Stereotypes of Asian women in media, focusing on how Asian women are perceived as either powerful women who date white men or exotic sexual beings. Includes a look at Lisa Ling's roles in Ally McBeal and Shanghai Noon, and how it's ok for an Asian man to date white women, but not ok for an Asian woman to date white men. Mentions ways Asian Americans change that stereotype, one of which is through an Asian American television network.

Im, Soyon

Seattle Weekly

24-Aug-00

RD 1 I47 A26

1900.2116