Published 2008
“…Drawing on the development of stereotypes and the various positive and negative characterizations of Asian American men and women, a textual analysis of popular contemporary US television dramas reveal that the images of two-dimensional Asian American stereotypes still persist but their character development suggest more positive representations and acceptance by white American audiences who still remain the primary target of these mainstream
American television dramas.
The slowly but surely changing representations are reflective of the progress made by the Asian American community who have been consistently lobbying for more positive representations of Asian Americans in the media. …”
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