David Roediger in his book “How Race Survived US History,” argued that even with the election of a black president and the success gained through the Civil Rights Movements, the “idea of race, emerges and continues to have meaning amid the evolving processes in which government, economy, and society sorted people into different relationships to property, to management, to punishment, and to citizenship.” This, to …show more content…
In “Ling Woo in Historical Context,” author Chyng Feng Sun talked about how Asian Americans are portrayed in a negative light in the media.
The author started off by pointing out how Asian Americans are underrepresented in the media, by drawing reference to the fact that a mere 0.8 percent of tv characters during 1991 and 1992 were Asian Americans with this amount having a slight increase during 1994 through 1997, with the majority of these roles being minor. However, to fully understands how Asians are portrayed one as to look at the history of exploitation endured by the Asian