Vincent N. Pham & Kent A. Ono 
Asian Americans and the Media 
Media and Minorities

Asian Americans and the Media provides a concise,
thoughtful, critical and cultural studies analysis of U.S. media
representations of Asian Americans. The book also explores ways
Asian Americans have resisted, responded to, and conceptualized the
terrain of challenge and resistance to those representations, often
through their own media productions.

In this engaging and accessible book, Ono and Pham summarize key
scholarship on Asian American media, as well as lay theoretical
groundwork to help students, scholars and other interested readers
understand historical and contemporary media representations of
Asian Americans in traditional media, including print, film, music,
radio, and television, as well as in newer media, primarily
internet-situated. Since Asian Americans had little control over
their representation in early U.S. media, historically dominant
white society largely constructed Asian American media
representations. In this context, the book draws attention to
recurring patterns in media representation, as well as responses by
Asian America. Today, Asian Americans are creating complex,
sophisticated, and imaginative self-portraits within U.S. media,
often equipped with powerful information and education about Asian
Americans. Throughout, the book suggests media representations are
best understood within historical, cultural, political, and social
contexts, and envisions an even more active role in media for Asian
Americans in the future.

Asian Americans and the Media will be an ideal text for
all students taking courses on Asian American Studies, Minorities
and the Media and Race and Ethic Studies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.

Section 1: Historical and Mainstream Media Representations.

2. The Persistence of Yellow Peril Discourse.

3. Media Yellowface ‚Logics‘.

4. Problematic Representations of Asian American Gender and
Sexuality.

5. Threatening Model Minorities: The Asian American Horatio
Alger Story.

Section 2: Striving for Media Independence.

6. Asian American Public Criticisms and Community Protests.

7. Asian American Media Independence.

8. The Interface of Asian American Independent Media and the
Mainstream.

9. Asian American New Media Practices.

10. Mobilizing Organizations.

11. Conclusion: Many Languages, One Voice.

Glossary.

References

Über den Autor

Kent A. Ono is a Professor of Communications and Asian
American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Vincent N. Pham is a Doctoral Student at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.