Asian Americans and the Media

Asian Americans and the Media provides a concise,thoughtful, critical and cultural studies analysis of U.S. mediarepresentations of Asian Americans. The book also explores waysAsian Americans have resisted, responded to, and conceptualized theterrain of challenge and resistance to those representations, oftenthrough their own media productions.

In this engaging and accessible book, Ono and Pham summarize keyscholarship on Asian American media, as well as lay theoreticalgroundwork to help students, scholars and other interested readersunderstand historical and contemporary media representations ofAsian Americans in traditional media, including print, film, music,radio, and television, as well as in newer media, primarilyinternet-situated. Since Asian Americans had little control overtheir representation in early U.S. media, historically dominantwhite society largely constructed Asian American mediarepresentations. In this context, the book draws attention torecurring patterns in media representation, as well as responses byAsian America. Today, Asian Americans are creating complex,sophisticated, and imaginative self-portraits within U.S. media,often equipped with powerful information and education about AsianAmericans. Throughout, the book suggests media representations arebest understood within historical, cultural, political, and socialcontexts, and envisions an even more active role in media for AsianAmericans in the future.

Asian Americans and the Media will be an ideal text forall students taking courses on Asian American Studies, Minoritiesand the Media and Race and Ethic Studies.