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Archive for February 2012
The New York Times reports that at the 2012 Academy Awards, someone made a racial joke that was “in questionable taste.”
That would be comedian and presenter Chris Rock, who cracked a joke about roles available to black men in animation:
“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you want to be. If you’re a fat woman you can play a skinny prin...
MacLeans interviewed Racebending.com co-founder Marissa Lee about the show Two Broke Girls: Three Stereotypes Walk Into a Diner
The comedy, the biggest new hit of the TV season, has been pilloried for stereotypical, under-written minor characters. Most pilloried of all, beating out the lecherous Ukrainian cook and the elderly, jazz-loving black cashier, is Han (Matthew Moy), a Korean with an exag...
It’s been over twenty years since Asian Americans rallied on Broadway against yellowface and “racebending” in Miss Saigon–the same protest that inspired our work against The Last Airbender here at Racebending.com–but Asian Americans are still not getting roles on Broadway. Enter the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC), a group that has organized to hel...
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