Comments on: Hollywood’s yellowface.

By: Jeff Yang takes on THAT writer of THAT WSJ piece. « theMaykazine

Jeff Yang takes on THAT writer of THAT WSJ piece. « theMaykazine — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:26:53 +0000

[...] I’m conflicted about linking to that WSJ article or not, just like Marie Claire’s anti-fatty piece made me strip my analysis of any proper pingbacks to the original post. I’ve pasted it below the cut, but basically what you need to know is Amy Chua’s piece reaches histrionic heights of “hardass Asian mom” (in the words of Disgrasian) practices. It’s like she took the common value of “academic pressure” and amplified it as much as Mickey Rooney’s buckteeth in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (I loathe Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and not just because of Rooney’s yellowface.) [...]

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Wed, 26 May 2010 22:16:06 +0000

[...] Hollywood’s yellowface. [...]

By: themaykazine

themaykazine — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:37:47 +0000

Hey Bossy Marmalade, (Does anyone ever refer to you as a bossy sauce? Because someone should! It's too catchy not to.) I definitely know of the LiveJournal movement and how it laid down the groundwork for racebending. Thanks for bringing it up to new readers (who I hope visit these words!). Aside from LJers and Avatar fans, don't dismiss the efforts of the overlooked animation community in this protest, too. I was really impressed when Cartoon Brew brought the issue in front of industry professionals. I'm hoping to attend Comic Con this year and spread more awareness to a crowd that has shown great understanding.

By: bossymarmalade

bossymarmalade — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:38:14 +0000

The biggest part of the Avatar protest got its start on livejournal. *g*

Here’s the central website: http://www.racebending.com

Thank you for this most excellent and passionate article, especially the sections on yellowface and how it’s still being perpetrated with almost no recognition of how racist the practice is. We need as many people as possible to learn about this issue so Paramount will actually take us seriously.

Also, I was reading an article about Anna May Wong recently and it said that she was turned down for the part of O-Lan. Can you imagine what a different movie it would have been with her in the lead? The heart weeps!

By: themaykazine

themaykazine — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:33:56 +0000

It’s frustrating, no? After I wrote this post, I found an even better visual essay by a girl on LiveJournal (of all places). You should totally check this out, too. We discuss the same things, but she goes into more detail:

http://themaykazine.tumblr.com/post/81809967/yellowface-at-its-core-is-not-only-the-practice

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:50:14 +0000

I knew I wanted to comment on this post when you posted it last week but I haven’t had time to read it thoroughly until now. I had never actually heard the term yellowface as you’ve described it here but always thought and learned about it in terms of Orientalism, which I guess you could argue plays a role (no pun intended) in the practice of yellowface. So you’re definitely right on about the issue of yellowface not getting the attention it deserves when it comes to discussions of Asian-Caucasian relations, or any race relations for that matter.

I did a quick Wikipedia search on yellowface and although the entry recognized that yellowface has endured for much longer than blackface, but at the same time the entry was only 3 paragraphs where I could have scrolled for days on the entry for blackface. It is an abomination, and ironic that we are always so quick to blow the whistle on any sign of blackface while yellowface continues to slip under the radar. I’m glad that you wrote this and that at least some people are calling it out for what it is. I’m Asian, and have a lot of Asian friends, yet most of them wouldn’t be able to recognize or care about the cultural implications of yellowface.

By: nemogbr

nemogbr — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:08:11 +0000

THank you for this post. It was most informative.

Ciao,
Obi