Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen from WWII to the Present charts how the dominant white and black binary of American racial discourse influences Hollywood s representation of the Asian. The Orientalist buddy film draws a scenario in which two buddies, one white and one black, transcend an initial hatred for one another by joining forces against a foreign Asian menace. Alongside an analysis of multiple genres of film, Brian Locke argues that this triangulated rendering of race ameliorates the longstanding historical contradiction between U.S. democratic ideals and white America s persistent domination over blacks.
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BRIAN LOCKE is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He has taught comparative race studies and cultural studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the University of Utah, and Yale University.
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