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Tag Archives: stereotypes
Pepsi’s Angry Black Woman
I saw the video above on Abagond. In Abagond’s post, he writes about stereotypes of the angry Black woman–what he calls the Sapphire stereotype–and how this commercial promotes not only as “angry, overbearing, undesirable and hard to get along with,” but that it also reinforces the stereotype of Black women being angry at Black men for chasin’ Becky.
The enemy of the Black woman in the commercial
Posted in Asian American, media
Tagged African American, interracial relationships, stereotypes
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“Me Too!”
I saw this piece at Abagond, which describes how White people will sometimes hear a minority’s story about racism and say, “You know, I experienced something like that too” and then proceed to tell their own story. An example that Abagond writes is:
Grown Black Woman: White people come up and touch my hair without asking.
White person: My child has beautiful white-blonde hair and people are always touching it!
Kingstonian Tar-and-Feather
Hai Nguyen with her husband John after divorcing her supposedly sexist Vietnamese American ex-husband Greg
King posted this article in the FlashForward thread. He was posting it to say something about interracial relationships among African Americans, but the story I caught from the article was this one:
Hai Nguyen, 37, of Houston recalls the instant connection she felt after meeting her first Vietnamese boyfriend, Greg, in college. Nguyen says while she had to explain herself to white boyfriends, with Greg it was a feeling that “he so gets me, because we eat the same food, we like the same things, our families know each other and there is so little that needs to be said.”
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Praxis
Tagged interracial relationships, racism, stereotypes
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Tila Tequila: Not Really Feeling It
I’m going to have to write this post without a pic. Because if I included a pic, it would have to be one of the subject, Tila Nguyen, aka Tila Tequila, and I find her repulsive and gross. As many of you probably have heard by now, Tila Tequila accused her boyfriend, Shawne Merriman, of choking her and keeping her in his home against her will over the weekend. Merriman says that the charges are false and that he was simply trying to keep her from driving drunk. Tila says that she wasn’t drinking because she is allergic to alcohol, but the man who owns the nightclub where the two were hanging out said that several employees saw Tequila drinking tequila and vodka. Which raises two questions–first, there’s a difference in the two stories, and we’ll have to wait to hear what the truth is. Second, why would you change your name from Tila Nguyen to Tila Tequila if you can’t even drink the stuff?
Posted in Asian American, Politics
Tagged Asian women, Shawne Merriman, stereotypes, Tila Tequila
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The Manly Sports
Ed Wang of Virginia Tech
(pic from here)
[As I mentioned in a previous post, life is busy with the activist summer. Thank you to bigWOWO reader Dizzle, who sent the following post. I agree with him on the stereotypes. I remember having a conversation with a Taiwanese woman who kept insisting that Apolo Ohno was a great athlete only because he was half white and had the "white genes." I kept asking, "Well, what about the #2 short track skater, who is full Korean and who managed to still win gold in some events?"
Disinterest Reticence Dispassion
(pic from here)
Brooks wrote a column in the NY Times yesterday about the “dignity code” and how it’s been obliterated. He describes the dignity code as follows:
The dignity code commanded its followers to be disinterested — to endeavor to put national interests above personal interests. It commanded its followers to be reticent — to never degrade intimate emotions by parading them in public. It also commanded its followers to be dispassionate — to distrust rashness, zealotry, fury and political enthusiasm.
He then talks about the forces that have killed it.
Asian Stereotypes 101 for Filmmakers
Micah Moore asked me to present some information about movie stereotypes as they relate to Asian Americans. He writes:
What would be really helpful to filmmakers is you giving specific examples of known films (from any territory) that you do respect. Films that got it right in your opinion. And why. It would be great if you could include both films with characters that are all identified as part of only one culture, and also examples with multi-cultural casts.
Obsessed: Fatal Attraction Among Black People
Idris Elba and Beyonce in Obsessed
I saw a commercial for Obsessed last week. It’ll be out at the end of the month. It’s a Fatal Attraction story with black people–but not really: the happily married couple is black, while the psycho woman is white. Beyonce Knowles plays the wife, Idris Elba (who has a delightful British accent in the featurette bel0w) plays the husband, and Ali Larter from Heroes plays the psychotic woman who stalks the husband.
See the featurette here:
Obsessed exclusive featurette
Found on http://heyshae.com/blog/?p=4662
So where do I begin…
The First Black First Family
CNN has a great piece on the Obamas role in breaking stereotypes of what a black family is supposed to be. Check it out here.
This is hilarious:
Jamaal Young was watching Barack Obama and his family greet an ecstatic crowd in Chicago, Illinois, on Election Night when he realized that something seemed wrong.
Obama didn’t shout at his wife, Michelle, to shut up. The first lady didn’t roll her eyes and tell Obama to act like a man. No laugh track kicked in, no one danced, and no police sirens wailed in the background.
Posted in Activism, Politics
Tagged Activism, Asian American, IR, media, Obama, stereotypes
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