Brand-new “Addicted to Race” episode out now (#12)!
JC & CVK
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free. Here’s a rundown of episode 12:
RANT:
The stupid stereotypes about Asian men and women perpetuated by the media is the subject of Carmen’s rant today.
SHAMELESS PLUG:
Our workshop series “What We Wish Parents Knew About Parenting Happy and Healthy Mixed Race Kids” starts this weekend! Visit parentingmixedkids.com to register or to order live audio recordings of all 4 workshops!
MIXED MEDIA WATCH NEWS UPDATE:
Jen counts down the top trends of 2005 that we’ve tracked on Mixed Media Watch: DNA tests, hate crimes, celebrities talk about race, how can I be racist? I’m in an interracial relationship!, blackface is back, race still black and white only, more products for mixed people and families.
TALKING TO CHILDREN ABOUT RACE
Jen and Carmen discuss why parents should talk about race with their mixed kids even if there are no apparent “issues” or problems. Check out Jen’s article on the topic here.
INTERVIEW WITH SHERIDAN PRASSO
Carmen interviews Sheridan Prasso, author of The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
Here’s a look at the next episode:
1) Jen will rant about the “Oppression Olympics”: how various communities try to out-victim each other.
2) Mixed Media Watch news round-up.
3) We’ll interview Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of the new book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.
Duration - 1:28:00
File Size - 21.4 MB
Listen to an MP3 of Addicted to Race Episode 12
GenAX wrote:
BEST EPISODE EVER!
This concise, yet incisive analysis of neo-Orientalism in American culture - even complete with an interview with Sheridan Prasso - summarizes the gripes of a WHOLE GENERATION AX (Asian-American X)! It neatly packages and gives an articulate voice to the frustrations of a minority generation drowned out by the thunderous booms of our racist mainstream media machine belching colonialist propaganda.
If you were to distill a thousand internet rants into one easily-digestible dish…THIS would be it! I found myself nodding in agreement to point after point…you at least covered most every base with all stuff, no fluff! KUDOS.
THIS should be at the VERY LEAST a modern companion piece to currently REQUIRED READING (institutionalized racism) in many high school curriculums of grossly distortional, mis-sinoandrist Aunty Tan tripe like “The Joy Luck Club.”
Thank You!
Posted 12 Jan 2006 at 4:05 pm ¶
France Nuyen wrote:
In 1962 she returned to Hawaii to shoot another interracial potboiler, Diamond Head, opposite Charlton Heston. “It was a love story with a racist,” says Nuyen. “White men could sleep with an Asian and give children but could not marry her.”
There’s a mystique,” she says in trying to explain the Hollywood compulsion. “The white man idealizes and totally dismisses the human being. Polynesian women are a fantasy of primal passion. Asians are more of a possession, like jade, a gemstone. The white man has a difficult time seeing women in general, especially women of color. Liat is part of that fantasy.”
Amy Tan is a user. She cut my best scene. She wanted unknowns in the movie and took actresses’ names off of all advertising [for Joy Luck Club],” confided France Nuyen. “Amy Tan wanted all of the attention for herself.
Amy Tan, who was intimately involved with every stage of the production, had the scene cut to sabotage her Oscar chances, Nuyen believes. Tan’s motive? To make sure the public associates the film with no one but Amy Tan.
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The scary thing is - it is White men like these and Asian women like Amy Tan who are projecting their own personal neuroses upon and dictating the image of Asians to America…
Posted 12 Jan 2006 at 4:13 pm ¶
Rob Schneider wrote:
Rob Schneider is sure one racist hapa. Although he is half-Filipino, his racist Jewish half seems to dominate in all his films.
In addition to the anti-Asian potshots in “Deuce Bigalo 2,” please screen “The Hot Chick.” In this flick, one of the cheerleaders is half-Black, half-Korean. Her Korean mom follows her around places to unwittingly “embarrass” her by playing up every chop-socky stereotype in the book.
She dresses in a “qi pao”…in the mall.
Has a big thick “chop socky” accent.
Her dad met her in a Korean liquor store.
But she now apparently works in a nail salon.
Etc.
But the funny thing is, her Black dad never similarly appears playing up every Black stereotype…but maybe he’s playing the “absentee Black daddy” one?
Also, when Rob gets mistaken as a lawnboy, he “plays along” by pretending he’s Mexican.
Somebody needs to call this mofo, and his producer buddy Adam Sandler, OUT already. I’m tired of their tired racist shyt! Is lowbrow racism…really that funny?
Posted 14 Jan 2006 at 11:38 am ¶
jenifer wrote:
im half black and korean and i actually enjoyed the hot chick. i thought it was funny.
Posted 23 Jan 2006 at 2:00 pm ¶
Rob wrote:
That is totally ridiculous. I can understand you being offended if you are any one of those races mentioned, but it’s just a movie, dude. Chill. Filipinos count as asians, you know. So if Schneider isn’t offended by those jokes then he probably expects that the audience shouldn’t have a problem with it either. I am one quarter filipino, and the rest Jewish (caucasian) and I am not at all offended by jokes in this movie. I have seen a lot worse in other movies and quite frankly I don’t really care because it is just comedy. If anyone is offended they should just not watch the movie, not call people mofos. For example, Mind of Mencia, with Carlos Mencia. Yes, of course, without a doubt, his show is very racial. But the thing is, he also makes fun of mexicans, being a mexican himself. Many people enjoy Rob Schneider’s movies so shut up. There are more elements to a movie that make it funny other than racist jokes, and if you did not enjoy his movies just because of some joke, I terribly am sorry. You must be a sad, lonely person. By the way, in The Hot Chick, Mr. Schneider only put the Korean/African American thing in because he wanted people struggling with racial identity to see that it is okay to be racially mixed, because of the fact that he is also racially mixed. The Korean/African American girl graduates at the end of the movie and says that she is proud to be Korean. That’s not racist, that’s just a message in the movie.
Posted 06 Jun 2006 at 7:40 pm ¶