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Asian Americans in Media

Asia Through a Glass Darkly: Stereotypes of Asians in Western Literature

Article written by John S. Major for the Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies, Vol. V, No. 3, Contemporary Literature, pp. 4-8, Spring 1986. Copyright AskAsia, 1996.

Asia Times

An English language news site that covers China, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Japan, Korea, and Central Asia. This Internet-only publication "reports and examines geopolitical, political, economic and business issues … from an Asian perspective."

Asian "Ally' character puts stereotypes to test

Annie Nakao, of the San Francisco Examiner discusses the character Ling on the Ally McBeal TV series.

Asian American Film

"The latest scoop on Asian American film and filmmakers. With constantly updated news, reviews, screening info, features, and message boards. With a Filmmakers Network and the Asian American Filmmakers Database."

Asian CineVision

A not-for-profit Asian American media arts center founded in 1976, is dedicated to encouraging the development of Asian American media arts.

Asian Stereotypes: Restrictive Portrayals of Asians in the Media and How to Balance Them

A memo from Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) to Hollywood that lists "restrictive Asian portrayals that are constantly repeated in the mainstream media and an explanation of why each is objectionable."

Asian Voices

Collections of interviews from the Conversations with History archive.

Asian American Journalists Association

An online newspaper for Asian American journalists in all media. Resource links to jobs, awards and other Internet sites.

Asian American Magazines

(commercial and exploitative mostly)

Giant Robot magazine

An Asian American online publication with general entertainment and lifestyles content.

Goldsea: Asian American Supersite

Large full-featured magazine. See especially Media Watch: Monitoring Asian progress in American mass media

Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA)

"To create an environment free of racism through accurate, balanced, and sensitive Asian American images." See article on Asian Stereotypes

Money, Media & The Asian American Image

"The truth is that we Asians have enough buying power to ensure the success or failure of virtually any premium brand selling in the U.S. simply by systematically giving or withholding our business."

News Watch Project

"A project of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, San Francisco State University Journalism Department. … We're your on-line resource for bringing unbiased, fair coverage of people of color and lesbians/gays to the news."

Rafu Shimpo

Los Angeles Japanese Daily News - Internet Edition - the largest Japanese bilingual daily outside of Japan.

South Asian Research Centre for Advertisement, Journalism and Cartoons (SARCAJC)

is committed to the study, research and promotion of advertisements, journalism and cartoons on non profit basis. This brings history alive in the most innovative form. Projects related to Indian cartoons, advertisements and journalism during British Raj are being conducted. Kindly view our website for more details.

S.F. International Asian American Film Festival

"A showcase of the latest films and videos from all points of the Asian diaspora."

The State of Women and Media in Asia: An Overview

Prepared by Mari Luz Quesada Tiongson, Isis International-Manila for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) September 1999

Vanishing Son: The Appearance, Disappearance, and Assimilation of the Asian-American Man in American Mainstream Media

1996 article by Amy Kashiwabara. This paper is a Senior Honors Thesis in Political Science, UC Berkeley, submitted May 1996; it has been mounted on the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center web site with permission of the author.