From Minstrelsy to Hellboy: The Whitewashing of Asian Americans in Hollywood

Nancy Wang Yuen, Ph.D., is the author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (Rutgers University Press, 2016), the first book to examine the barriers actors of colors face in Hollywood and the ways in which the actors creatively challenge stereotypes. 

Yuen pioneered the first policy report on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in prime time television and a 10-year follow-up study titled, “Tokens on the Small Screen: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on Prime Time and Streaming Television.”

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