Tag Archives: yellowface
It’s time to take the offensive yellowface of “The Mikado” off the stage
I recently blogged about a video produced by the City of Los Angeles – using taxpaper money – that was originally produced with good intentions: Explaining the importance of recycling water. But to make its point, the video used a ghastly, stereotypical caricature of geishas played by non-Asians with painted faces wearing kimonos, including one […]
City of Los Angeles produces racist “geisha” video abt recycling water
Wow, seriously? Who came up with this brilliant idea? Then who worked on it and who the hell approved it?
MANAA criticizes the yellowface depiction of Asians in “Cloud Atlas”
Here’s an update to my post of a few weeks ago, about the use of yellowface to have white actors playing Asian characters in “Cloud Atlas.” MANAA, the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, adds its voice to the chorus criticizing the big-budget Hollywood sci-fi for its ridiculous and laughable depiction of Asians: FOR IMMEDIATE […]
Yellowface redux: Why is it OK for Hollywood to cast white people as Asians?
Yellowface is back in Hollywood, and it’s as big, ugly, blatant and offensive as ever. Racebending wrote about this a couple of weeks ago in “The Cloud Atlas Conversation: Yellowface, Prejudice, and Artistic License,” but as more and more people see the trailer for the new sci-fi flick “Cloud Atlas” (the film just premiered at […]
Keanu Reeves as a samurai: Is it still ‘yellowface’ if the actor is hapa?
The Hollywood news source Variety reported yesterday that Keanu Reeves, everyone’s favorite hapa actor (his father is Hawai’ian-Chinese) is going to play the lead role in a samurai epic, “47 Ronin.” The 47 Ronin is the celebrated 18th century story from Japanese history, of a group of masterless samurai who avenged the death of their […]
