EN 3177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Model Minority, Culture Of Asia, Detective Comics
Document Summary
Key themes: historical context of chinese american representation in society and culture, defining stereotypes and caricatures, popular chinese stereotypes the case of fu manchu, destruction of stereotypes and caricatures. One time powers don"t change the character. Shadow hero: self-conscious revisionism with the first asian characters, deconstructs history of superheroes reconstruction. Most were laborers and miners, or owned restaurants and laundries. Intense racial discrimination in 1970-1980 because the chinese lowered the wages for white workers but low pay was forced on them. Chinese exclusion act 1982 prohibited asian immigration for 10 years. Nobody of chinese origin immigrated for 15 years as a result. No depiction of asians in pop culture for a long time. Other non-white superhero comics were released by marvel and dc but none were very popular. For 28 years there were no superheroes of color. There were lots of people of color before 1966 but they were all villains. Racist drawing small eyes big mouth.
