![]() Minorities often are forced to take these roles because the film and TV industry lacks varied roles that don’t depict these groups as anything but what white Americans believe them to be.Īs Yu explores throughout the book, sometimes we are also victims to these ideas: we become what they want us to be. ![]() If POCs want to be represented in media, they are often cast into stereotypical roles that befit their racial background (i.e., Asians as nerds, Black Americans as the sidekick, or the Latinx actor as a laborer). ![]() I think as a person of color (POC) in the U.S., it is very difficult to break into established institutions like Hollywood. His features taken away and replaced by archetypes.” No descriptors, anymore, no age or build, just a role, a name, a shell where he used to be. Despite having a role in Hollywood films, Yu argues that most-if not all-Asians are already set up to fail. ![]() Throughout the story, Yu details the roles that Asian men and women are subjected to from the objectified Dragon Lady to the Kung Fu Guy. ![]() Structured like a TV script, Yu introduces us to Willis Wu, an American-born man still defined first for being Asian - a perceived other. Interior Chinatown is a quirky set-up for a story, but an enjoyable one nonetheless. ![]()
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