Measuring Dating Preference for Asian Americans Versus White Americans

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thai Intarakamhang
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
White Americans

Yellowface Performance: Historical and Contemporary Contexts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Lee
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Interracial Interactions ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
American Theater ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Political Radicalism ◽  
East West

In European and North American theater and film, the centuries-old practice of “yellowface”—white actors playing Asian-identified characters—has dominated the ways that Asians and Asian Americans have been presented. Since the 19th century, yellowface representations in American theater portrayed these characters as villainous despots, exotic curiosities, or comic fools. These roles in turn greatly reduced the opportunities for the employment and recognition of Asian and Asian American actors. Yellowface performance does not only misrepresent Asians and Asian Americans by limiting the kinds of visibility and opportunities that they might have, but it also supports the imagined distinctions between those values presumably embodied by white Americans and those associated with oriental others. Late-19th and early-20th-century plays such as George Ade’s The Sultan of Sulu (1902), Joseph Jarrow’s The Queen of Chinatown (1899), and David Belasco’s Madame Butterfly (1900) not only used yellowface acting but also expressed anxieties about interracial interactions and the potential for racial contamination produced by U.S. imperialism and Chinese immigration. Both yellowface and “whitewashing” (the erasure of Asian and Asian American characterizations from film and theater in order to benefit white actors) continue to be used in U.S. theater and film. In addition to protesting, Asian American performing artists have responded by creating alternative venues for Asian American performers and writers to make their talents known, such as Los Angeles’s East West Players (established in 1965). Asian Americans have also fully engaged with these issues through writing a host of plays that feature characterizations of actors who suffer the effects of discriminatory casting practices. Two plays in particular, David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face (2007) and Lloyd Suh’s Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery (2015) not only critique the legacies of yellowface representation but also prompt broader reflection on how contemporary Asian American identities are shaped by both political radicalism and “model minority” conformity. These plays re-appropriate yellowface to comment on the changing and contested nature of racial categories such as “Asian American” as well as the continuing problems of racial typecasting.

scholarly journals Do You Feel Important? A Comparison of White and Asian Americans’ Perception of Their Social Rank

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ally Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Social Rank ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
White Sample ◽  
The Relationship

Asians are often viewed as the “model minority” group for assumptions about their high income and education level. Does this necessarily translate to higher self-esteem, social desirability, and self-perceived social rank for Asians? Building upon literature examining confidence, beauty, masculinity and the “model minority” stereotype, I use the General Social Survey (2016—2018) to study the relationships between attractiveness and perceived social rank for 124 Asian Americans and 3,038 White Americans. The attractiveness data was collected by the GSS rating respondents on their physical attractiveness. Social rank helps examine a general sense of perceived ranking in society that may not be explicitly expressed by socio-economic class. I propose that a high attractiveness rating positively affects the level of self-perceived ranking for Whites but not for Asians. I also control for sex, age, family income and education. The results of the regression support my hypothesis showing a statistically significant relationship between attractiveness and social rank for the White sample but not the Asian sample. However, the strongest predictor of self-perceived social rank was the level of family income. Therefore, the more money someone makes, the higher they self-reported their social rank for both Asians and Whites. Due to the limited sample size of Asians, further research including a larger group of Asian participants should be conducted to study the relationship between attractiveness and social rank.

scholarly journals High-Status Exemplars and the Misperception of the Asian-White Wealth Gap

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Enya Kuo ◽  
Michael W. Kraus ◽  
Jennifer Richeson
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
High Status ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Central Hypothesis ◽  
Wealth Gap ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

In this research, we test the central hypothesis that perceptions of Asian Americans as a high-status “model minority” lead to overestimates of the extent of wealth equality between Asian and White Americans. We test this hypothesis across three studies that manipulate the salience of high- or low-status Asian American exemplars before soliciting estimates of Asian-White wealth equality. A meta-analysis of the results revealed that participants significantly overestimated Asian-White wealth equality, and that making low- versus high-status Asian American exemplars salient decreased this tendency. These data suggest that activation of high-status Asian American exemplars elicits greater overestimates of Asian-White wealth equality, obscuring existing wealth disparities relative to White Americans and significantly downplaying the economic inequality that burdens a subset of Asian Americans from less-prototypical ethnic backgrounds. The findings echo recent calls by sociologists and political scientists for a more nuanced understanding of the diversity and economic inequality among Asian American communities.

Appealing to Diverse Electorates in the United States

2019 ◽  
pp. 257-277
Author(s):  
David M. Searle ◽  
Marisa Abrajano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Scant Attention

As electorates around the world become increasingly diverse, addressing how electoral persuasion emerges is a major concern. Focusing on the United States, this chapter explores the campaign strategies used by candidates to persuade, mobilize, and target diverse voters. It begins by conducting an exhaustive review of the existing research. After doing so, the chapter concludes that there is still much to be done and highlights particular aspects ripe for future research. In particular, scant attention has been paid to the ways candidates, political parties, and outside groups target African Americans and the extent to which they are persuaded or mobilized by these efforts. A similar need exists with respect to the campaign strategies used to target Asian Americans. Critically, it is important to know whether the electoral tactics, long proven effective for white Americans also work in the same way for voters with distinct political experiences and socialization processes. The remainder of the chapter offers future avenues and directions for scholars wishing to better understand how electoral persuasion operates in diverse electorates.

The Impact of Ethnic Consciousness and Neighborhood Characteristics on College Retention Amongst Latino Students

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Vélez
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Latino Students ◽  
College Retention ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Neighborhood Characteristics ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
Fall Semester ◽  
Ethnic Consciousness ◽  
The Impact

In the last thirty years the number of Latinos attending college has increased dramatically. According to the U. S. Department of Education (2001) approximately nine (8.6) percent (i.e., 1,200,100) of all students enrolled in our nation's colleges and universities during the 1997 fall semester were of Hispanic/Latino heritage. Although this number reflects a slight increase over previous years, persistence to graduation among Latino students however, remains a significant problem, as Latinos continue to still experience higher attrition rates than white Americans. Approximately twenty percent of Latinos are reported to complete their college studies within six years, compared to more than 40 percent of whites and Asian Americans (Porter 1990).

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