Addicted to Race 83: The New Yellow Peril
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 83) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Jeff discuss the new yellow peril. Between the lead paint toy scare, the tainted pet food scare, and the general rise of China’s economic and military might, all the anti-Chinese sentiments we’ve been hearing lately sound awfully similar to the anti-Chinese sentiments at the turn of the century.
This episode features the song “Give Me Love” by Grayskul, courtesy of Spectre Entertainment.
Carmen is joined by Jeff Yang in this episode. Yang is the Asian Pop columnist for SFGate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, and founded and published the pioneering Asian American periodical aMagazine for over a dozen years. He has written for a wide range of publications, and authored three books—”Eastern Standard Time” (Houghton Mifflin); “I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action” (Ballantine, the action icon’s official autobiography); and “Once Upon a Time in China” (Atria/Pocket Books). His fourth book, a graphic novel anthology of Asian American superhero tales titled “Secret Identities,” is due out from The New Press in Fall 2008.
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Duration – 36:13
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ellie wrote:
Sup, I found a link to this blog…erm…somewhere? I think it was “bitch” magazine but I can’t be sure. Anyway, kudos to you guys writing about race in pop culture.
Posted 27 Sep 2007 at 2:06 am ¶
egypt4 wrote:
Carmen, do you have any control over how long it takes podcasts to show up in iTunes? Episode 82 still hasn’t show up, and I am subscribed.
I’m just so eager to here it all!
Posted 27 Sep 2007 at 5:06 am ¶
egypt4 wrote:
Oh my. *hear* it
Posted 27 Sep 2007 at 5:07 am ¶
Carmen Van Kerckhove wrote:
Hey egypt4, I actually checked on iTunes and the latest episodes do seem to be showing up.
Would you mind unsubscribing and resubscribing using this RSS feed?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/addicted
Or, you could also do a search in the music store and hit subscribe there.
I think it’s possible that you’re subscribed to a different feed, which for some reason isn’t updating properly.
Please let me know if that works – thanks!
Posted 27 Sep 2007 at 7:58 am ¶
Phil C. wrote:
Great discussion on the ‘new’ yellow peril. Recently I was on a show that pandered to xenophobic sentiment for laughs. I sometimes work as an extra on the many shows and movies that shoot in Vancouver, Hollyweird North. On an episode of JPod an upcoming CBC TV series, I played a Chinese factory manager. The scenes had the (white) main character working in a slave factory in China making cheap goods, complete with child labour (for once all the extras were Asian including kids). In one scene that character puts the boss onto the conveyor belt and the boss goes into the machine for comedic effect. I had mixed feelings when I found out what I was to play (as a background performer, they usually don’t tell you what the scene is until you show up on day of shooting).
Posted 28 Sep 2007 at 7:50 am ¶
egypt4 wrote:
So #83 here did download before I re-subscribed. Hmmm. So it just skipped *82 for some strange reason.
Anyway, Carmen, thank you for checking!
Posted 29 Sep 2007 at 11:16 am ¶