Erasure of Asian-Americans in Hollywood
A research book on the lack of authentic Asian-American representation in Hollywood
A research book on the lack of authentic Asian-American representation in Hollywood
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like Daughter of the Dragon,
where she plays the daughter
of yellow peril Dr. Fu Manchu³¹.
Positive representations of
Asians like in Dragon Seed, a
film about a Chinese woman
banding her village against
invading Japan, were given to
Katherine Hepburn³². Hepburn
wore makeup to look Chinese
for the film, which had a white
cast. Another film that was
whitewashed is The Good Earth;
it starred German actress Luise
Rainer in yellow-face as O-Lan³³.
The reason Hollywood gave for
the whitewashing of the roles
is that one of the romantic leads
was hired as white, which meant
they had to cast the other lead
white too.
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