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These models provide a beginning. Learn from the experiences of others also. People like Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. DuBois, whose works resonate for us as people of color. And most importantly, learn from what writers like Gish Jen, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan show us of the ways in which our sisters view us (views which perhaps we might not always like seeing...
...view of Asian men. To his credit, Allen has placed his finger on a raw nerve in the Asian-American male psyche, but he doesn't seem to understand that the characters he objected to are not simply mainstream stereotypes of Asian men (especially given the involvement of Amy Tan and Wayne Wang with the entire production process). In fact, they are images that need to be viewed in the context of the very real sexism that Asian women have to put up with both within and outside the Asian communities...
...Luck Club," based on Amy Tan's novel, works like a photo album, presenting to the audience brief glimpses of the remarkable lives of four Chinese American women and their grown-up daughters. But it is not organized chronologically. Instead, each scene pivots on the emotional significance of the preceding...
...Luck Club," the new film based on the bestselling novel by Amy Tan, is a stirring film that celebrates the mother-daughter bond, and is a rarity among American films for its almost exclusively Asian cast. So why, then, after seeing this beautiful and emotionally potent film, did I feel so ashamed for being an Asian-American...
There is the Walking Dead category, people who seem to have been killed, then made over with rouge and lip gloss. Then there are the marginally luckier people who appear to have just returned from roasting under tanning lamps. Finally there are the hybrids, those who fall between categories, appearing both dead and tan...