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...party, they have reversed their initial positions; Bradley has had a nose-job and is playing a lucrative but demeaning role in a big-budget film, while Vincent is about to make an independent documentary about a Japanese family during World War II. As if to emphasize his enlightenment, Gotanda even has Vincent come out in the play's last scene, adding sexual liberation to ethnic pride...
...Yankee Dawg You Die" is the fourth play the Asian-American Association Players have produced. It successfully explores the anger and frustration that even second- and third-generation Americans of Asian descent often feel. Gotanda shows that there is a tremendous amount of pressure on Asian-American actors to conform to the media's stereotypes of Asians and to play only roles that are specifically written for Asian actors...
Philip Kan Gotanda, a well-known Japanese-American playwright, writes that the prejudice Asian-Americans face is more subtle than that facing Blacks and Latinos. Particularly now, he said in a recent interview in the Los Angeles Times, Asian-Americans are left out of the mainstream culture. They are in a "double bind" where they are cast as "'insidious' at the same time there's this feeling of knowing them. You get the worst of both worlds...
...addition to Burns Bisharat said that he has confirmed lecturers for the following three weeks: Robert T. Coulter, founder and executive director of the Indian Resource Center in Washington. D.C., John Britain, associate professor at the University of Connecticut Law School, and Neil Gotanda, assistant professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law. The lecturers will address other legal topics involving racial discrimination, particularly with historical analysis dating back to colonial America...
Sitting in the rear seat of a small Toyopet car, the director of the Imperial Household Board rode last week across the moat surrounding the Imperial Palace and was whisked along Tokyo's streets to the Gotanda district. The car drew up before the high-gabled, ten-room house of Hidesaburo Shoda, president of the Nis-shin Flour Milling Co., the largest in Japan...
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