Asian Stereotypes and American-Sino Relations in Marvel’s Collective Man

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Smith
Keyword(s):  
Asian Stereotypes

“A Song Calling for You”

Soul in Seoul ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 43-88
Author(s):  
Crystal S. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Music ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Black American ◽  
Korean Music ◽  
Dynamic Image ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Asian Stereotypes

Korean pop groups cite the R&B tradition by emulating R&B musical and vocal elements in catchy pop songs and enhance the tradition through Korean music strategies that infuse multiple genres with R&B elements. Korean pop groups emulate the R&B tradition by citing elements of funk, club, and urban R&B. Moreover, Korean and African American producers infuse K-pop with different varieties of R&B. These artists also enhance the R&B tradition by mixing pop genres with R&B within individual songs and over the course of their careers. In music videos, they cite the choreography and styles of African American performance in ways that provide alternatives to Asian stereotypes. This intertextuality is driven by promotions that focus on image and music quality; strategies that mirror those employed by Black American music producers. The combination of dynamic image and quality music production fuels K-pop’s cultural work and global crossover, thereby making it part of a global R&B tradition.

Soft Power: Hwang and Tesori’s reappropriation of The King and I in representing twenty-first-century diplomacy and the dystopic reality of contemporary America

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnab Banerji
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
David Henry Hwang ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Asian Stereotypes

This article reviews David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori’s Soft Power. In this ‘play with a musical’, Hwang and Tesori revisit Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I to critique its Asian stereotypes. The genre-bending form is, however, much more than a simple retelling of a flawed musical of the past. As the article demonstrates, the writers question China’s attempts at public diplomacy and its efforts to acquire soft power vis a vis its dismal human rights records. The play does so by not merely reversing the narrative of The King and I but by offering a nuanced take on twenty-first-century politics. In doing so, the writers create a scathing portrayal of American reality set against a backdrop of contemporary events.

PREDICTORS OF YOUNG AUSTRALIANS' ATTITUDES TOWARD ABORIGINALS, ASIANS AND ARABS

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 569-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mir Rabiul Islam ◽  
Mirna Jahjah
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Asian Stereotypes

Measures of stereotypes, affect, perceived threat and relative deprivation were used to predict attitudes toward three minority groups in Australia: Aboriginals, Asians and Arabs. Participants included 139 Anglo-Saxon volunteer university students (60 male, 79 female). The findings highlighted the fact that attitudes were significantly positive towards Aboriginals compared with attitudes towards Asians and Arabs. However, Asian stereotypes were distinctively positive compared to the two other target groups. Multiple regression analyses indicated that affective measures were often better predictors of attitudes towards minority groups. Overall, the results indicated the importance of emotional stakes as crucial components of racial attitudes in Australia. The implications of these findings suggest that attitude change programs, which have traditionally been based on simply changing cognitive aspects of attitudes (e.g., knowledge structures, facts about racial groups) should also take into consideration the roles of affective features of attitudes (e.g., anxiety, distrust, frustration evoked by racial groups).

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