AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pickaxe, Desejo Proibido, Theodore Roosevelt
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On asian american popular culture: examples, history. Williams there is also a different kind of culture that has been developed for a people by an internal or external group, and embedded in them by a range of processes from repressive imposition to commercial saturation . Hypermasculine indian character vs. less masculine asian character. Presents and then plays with the idea of the model minority. Self aware of late 20th century racial politics. Replaces emasculation of harold with hyper masculinity of kumar. Yellowface marks the asian body as unmistakably oriental; it sharply defines the. Oriental in a racial opposition to whiteness [it] exaggerates racial" features that have been designated oriental", such as slanted" eyes, overbite, and mustard yellow skin (2) Labor market and family - primary metaphor for nation - are the key categories to keep in mind when considering ways in which asians in america are constructed (7)
