Mickey Rooney Role Nobody Wants To Talk Much About

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Yang, Jeff. "The Mickey Rooney Role Nobody Wants to Talk Much About." Speakeasy RSS. Wall Street Journal, 8 Apr. 2014. Web. 08 Oct. 2015.

As a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, the boards of the Asian American Justice Center and China Institute in America, and graduate of Harvard, Jeff Yang provides important perspective on the detrimental portrayal of racial and ethnic minorities in entertainment. He is a business/media consultant for the reputable news source Wall Street Journal and writes frequently for CNN. The Wall Street Journal is the largest newspaper in the US by circulation. The article “The Mickey Rooney Role Nobody Wants to Talk Much About” ties the racist depiction of a Japanese landlord from the

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