Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Upon examination, the subtle racism of those who argue about "Asian human rights" is also clear. Americans are individuals who are concerned with our rights as such. Asians, on the other hand, aren't really individuals and don't have individual rights. If Asians are not quite individuals, then they are not quite human. Asians are, in this view, little more than worker drones willing to sacrifice themselves in an instant for the good of the state. This argument, is in essence, identical to the statements of people warning of "The Yellow Peril" in the 1950s. The Chinese regime...
...conference came on the heels of a flurry of new ethnic-studies offerings at Ivy League schools, including new majors at Yale and Brown. Last month, the English department at Harvard created for the first time a permanent junior Faculty position in Asian-American literature...
...student groups--notably the Ethnic Studies Action Committee and the Academic Affairs Committee of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations--have in recent years organized rallies, conferences and teachins on Asian-American, Latino and Native American studies...
...piece "Some Questions for 28 Kisses," although his offering is less a video performance of poetry and more a creative film with a poetic soundtrack. "28 Kisses" offers a montage of visual and aural images (including film clips and written and spoken words) all of which depict stereotypes of Asian men and women, especially in their sexual interactions. The clips, for instance, all feature scenes in which white men and Asian women are embracing. Meanwhile, questions roll across the bottom of the screen: "Do they really have small penises?"; "Have you heard the term 'asiaphile'...how about 'rice queen...
Fulbeck ends with a brief epilogue, in which he remarks, "My dad's white. My mom's Asian. What am I supposed to think about these images?" This final speech, discussing the necessity of art to sometimes infuriate to achieve its purpose, accrues even greater vehemence: it's spoken alone, apart from the plethora of visual images and overlapping speech which compose the rest of the piece...