Asian American

suggestive marketing techniques featuring suggestive portrayals of Asian television models. I will explain how Wilson and Gutierrez make people uncomfortable to alert them of these advertisements. I will also be explaining how these…

Hostile American attitudes towards Asian immigration, especially the Chinese, remained continuous throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Following political unrest and economic pressures in China, thousands of Chinese immigrants moved to the western regions of the U.S. in search of work. With this movement between 1850 and 1890, more than 300,000 Chinese immigrants entered the United States. Similarly, this migration was accompanied by heightened anti-Chinese sentiment and ethnic discrimination…

what most females look up to and want to be. As Asians possess features that are far from the Caucasian white features, they think that they do not look as good or that they cannot be as "beautiful" as the whites. Some members of stigmatized groups, such as Asian women, may be more likely to experience negative self-evaluations after exposure to a mainstream beauty standard than Universal Beauty Ideals…

differences in participation levels between African-Americans and whites, and that the literature normally neglects to include other types of ethnic minority groups (Leighley and Vedlitz 1999). Leighley and Vedlitz attempt to address these limitations by evaluating five different models of participation to determine whether factors associated with African-American and white participation are also associated with Asian-American and Mexican-American political participants (Leighley and Vedlitz…

slow growing (Fig. 1 & 2). The 70s was the self-love for all and Networks were paying attention, especially when it came to the African American population. In the 70s brought us shows like Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, Different Strokes, and Good Times. This was a special time for African Americans in televisions. There was a wider range of African American life depicted. Latino…

identity categories or preconceived judgments. In fact, as a biracial American, this narrative of battling common myths or ideologies dealing with subject positions derived from culture has applied to my…

Unlike white Caucasian actors, the number of roles which are available for ethnic minorities are low. A study conducted by University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication shows that black actors occupy 12.5%, while Asian and Hispanic hold only 5.3% and 4.9% respectively for roles in top 100 films in 2014. However, the existence of these roles is likely to be the secondary characters or to merely diversify the movies. Recalling two popular sitcoms in the late 90s and 00s,…

African Americans are often stereotypically featured in advertisements to promote the hip hop culture or become athletes. Julia Bristor suggests that “this limited view of African Americans in non-occupational and often leisurely roles may be damaging in that it suggests to the public that they have little to work towards except for a future in hip hop or sports” (Bristor 14). Pepsi’s representation of African Americans fails to reflect on the shifting perceptions of African Americans in our…

Race and racial inequality have powerfully shaped American history from the very beginning. Americans think of the founding of the American colonies and, later, the United States, as driven by the quest for freedom when initially, religious liberty and later political and economic liberty. Still, from the beginning, American society was equally founded on brutal forms of domination, inequality, and oppression which lead to the foundation of two models of minority exclusion known as Apartheid and…

talk, “Fresh of the boat” explored the systematic racism that is directed towards the Asian community in America. The speech makes its case by citing cases from prime time television, in particular from a show called, “Fresh of the boat”. The speech…