“‘Big Bad Chinese Mama’: How Internet Humor Subverts Stereotypes about Asian American Women”

Seethaler, Ina

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“…Founded in 2000 by Asian-American comedienne Kristina Wong, BBCM featured satirical images of Asian-American women that defy long held belief that they are "exotic, passive beings" and humanizes them as subjects with agency. 66 Seethaler's research also includes an interview with Wong where she explains some of her motivations for starting such a website, the primary purpose being to fight forms of racialized and sexualized oppression. 67 She ultimately concludes that early forms of internet humor, which is still a mainstay on contemporary social media, is an effective tool for both community empowerment and outreach to a larger audience.…”

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Negotiating the Melancholy of Alterity : The Oppositional Digital Visual Culture of East-Asian American Women Artists

Zhang¹

2022

BUJ

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hrough the interview of four East-Asian American women artists of diverse backgrounds, alongside semiotic analysis of their selected works, I investigate their oppositional digital art practice as well as their general online experiences. The digital sphere replicates the same forms of racially and sexually based oppression that occurs in the non-digital world in rapidly diverging forms. The main findings demonstrate that digital technologies offer novel ways for East-Asian American artists to resist oppression, visibilize their struggles, and explore their identities. Oppositional techniques can be sorted into three broad categories describing the archival, discursive, and voyeuristic capabilities of digital space. These categories describe a broad range of practices including generating alternative autobiographical histories, forging larger communities of resistance, and subverting the white male gaze. East-Asian American women artists actively challenge structural power through innovative multimedia methodologies that challenge mainstream representations in which they are regarded as subhuman, and resist essentialized roles and fixed markers of East-Asian culture and identity. Their diverse experiences converge upon the common goal of resisting hegemonic order and fostering a supportive space in which the voices of their community can be heard. Drawing on movements like postcolonial feminist scholarship from Anne Anlin Cheng, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, and Saidiya Hartman, as well as Third Cinema, I argue that social media sites and other internet communities expand and enable the development of a digital postcolonial aesthetic and art practice for East-Asian American women artists, allowing them to exercise agency over their artistic and historical narratives.

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Negotiating the Melancholy of Alterity : The Oppositional Digital Visual Culture of East-Asian American Women Artists

Zhang¹

2022

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Gender Representation in Simba and Yanga’s Joking Cartoons in Tanzania

Omari

2019

Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies

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Hyper-Sexualization of Asian American Women

Wen¹

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Sport Science, Education and Social Development (SSESD 2022)

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Previous research tends to investigate discrimination against Asian-Americans, however, little research analyzes the discrimination of Asian American Women. This paper starts with Asian immigration and the establishment of the Page Act. Then, this paper argues that the Page Act is heavily reliant on the U.S. society's stereotypes of Asian American women and the association of Asian American women with prostitution. These stereotypes and associations led to the current-day hyper-sexualization of Asian American women, including verbal and physical violence. A cause of the mistreatment of Asian American women lies in hemispherical racism and western military dominance during the post-war era. Lastly, the paper highlights the need to break through western misconceptions of Asian American women through solidarity with transnational feminism organizations and a more diverse media representation of Asian American women. Overall, the paper shows the continuity of discrimination against Asian American women throughout history and concludes its damaging effects on the identity development of Asian American females in the country.

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“‘Big Bad Chinese Mama’: How Internet Humor Subverts Stereotypes about Asian American Women”

Cited by 3 publications

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Negotiating the Melancholy of Alterity : The Oppositional Digital Visual Culture of East-Asian American Women Artists

Negotiating the Melancholy of Alterity : The Oppositional Digital Visual Culture of East-Asian American Women Artists

Gender Representation in Simba and Yanga’s Joking Cartoons in Tanzania

Hyper-Sexualization of Asian American Women

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