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Dreaming in Black and White: Racial-Sexual Policing in The Birth of a Nation, The Cheat, and Who Killed Vincent Chin
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Professor Chang observes that Asians are often perceived as interlopers in the nativistic American "family." This conception of a nativist "family" is White in composition and therefore accords a sense of economic and sexual entitlement to Whites, ironically, even if particular beneficiaries are recent immigrants. Transgressions by those perceived to be "illegitimate," such as Asians and Blacks, are policed either by rule of law or the force of sanctioned vigilante violence. Chang illustrates his thesis by drawing upon the three films referenced.
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- See also Karin Wang, Comment, Battered Asian American Women: Community Responses from the Battered Women's Movement and the Asian American Community, 3 ASIAN L.J. 151, 178 (1996) (discussing the Vincent Chin case as "the watershed event that set in motion the first extensive community-based efforts to fight anti-Asian violence."). [Vol. 5:41 HeinOnline --5 Asian L. J. 56 1998 ers"1).
- See Keith Aoki, Foreign-ness and Asian American Identities: Yellowface, Propaganda and Bifurcated Stereotypes, 4 UCLA ASIAN PAC. AM. L.J. (forthcoming 1997) ("A crucial feature of this reciprocal dynamic is that those qualities that 'orientalized others' possess, the 'occidental self/culture/nation' does not, and vice versa-i.e., what we are, they are not; or conversely, what they are, we are not."). See also Natsu Saito, Model Minority, Yellow Peril: Functions of "Foreignness" in the Construction of Asian American Legal Identity, 4 ASIAN L.J. 71 (1997). As noted before, Neil Gotanda began this discussion of foreignness and other non-whites. For an examination and extension of his ideas, see Symposium, In Honor of Neil Gotanda, 4 ASIAN L.J. 1 (1997). 82. 1 do not mean this literally. 1998] HeinOnline --5 Asian L. J. 61 1998 HeinOnline --5 Asian L. J. 62 1998
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- Authors
- Chang, R. S.
- Corresponding author
- Chang, Robert S.
- ORCID
- Chang, Robert S.
- Venue
- Asian American Law Journal
- Publisher
- Asian American Law Journal
- Published
- 1998
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 41
- OpenAlex
- W64301316
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 6.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- bepress Legal Repository (submittedVersion)
- Asian American law journal
- UC Berkeley
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Asian American and Pacific Histories
- Social Sciences › Law › Law in Society and Culture
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Keywords
- racial policing, nativism, Asian Americans, The Birth of a Nation, interracial sexuality, vigilantism, film analysis, racial stereotypes
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