It explores the connections between the Chinese community and the black community in the same working-class neighborhoods of New York. When it comes to representation, the film takes a different approach.

If you want to cast Crazy Rich Asians, you have people for that… you want to cast an Asian American male basketball player that can play 18? I mean, it's Taylor Takahashi. “We’re telling a story that no one has really attempted to tell. Rebecca Liu PZ ’20 is interested in double majoring in Media Studies and Asian American Studies.Outside of prioritizing authenticity, Huang didn’t always have a choice. It’s important to remember who is and who isn’t represented by the media created not just by Huang, but also other Asian American creators and producers. By inviting Huang to speak at Scripps College (an event for which all tickets are sold out), the colleges are saying that misogyny and anti-black racism are permissible. This isn’t to say we can’t enjoy Fresh Off the Boat or other media created by Huang, but that we should be more critical of the media we consume in general and aware of how it may perpetuate stereotypes for other marginalized identities. In the end, this comes down to a larger community issue about the importance of intersectionality, and how Asian Americans can create an environment to encourage that intersectionality. And many Asian American male celebrities are still unaware of their own misogyny. Cho also inaccurately compared (these tweets have since been deleted as well) Asian American struggles to the struggles of Black people to reduce the severity of Black oppression (though she did apologize later). Arden Cho from Teen Wolf once tweeted, “#AllLivesMatter” (though this tweet has since been deleted) following the news of police brutality against a Korean woman in which two police officers shoved the woman in question against her car and forced her into a submissive position on the ground to handcuff her.

Aziz Ansari of Parks and Recreations and Master of None often criticizes Black visibility, implying that Black people are somehow “better off” than Asians, while profiting off Black culture (part of his appeal is that he is Indian but talks in African American Vernacular English). I don’t mean to scapegoat Huang specifically indeed, there are other Asian American celebrities who are not much better when it comes to issues of anti-blackness. In other words, Huang tries to claim that Asian men can be masculine too, but does not recognize that the masculinity he subscribes to is toxic, racist, and violent. Looking at this lack of intersectionality through a larger framework, Huang attempts to challenge stereotypes about Asian men, but at the expense of other Asians who aren’t men, who aren’t monoracial, and who don’t have the same privileges (being upper-class, being cis, being heterosexual) as Huang. It’s also important to remember that some Asians are Black and that these issues affect people in the Asian American community too. Ignoring this allows the anti-blackness in the Asian American community to continue unchecked. On the subject of anti-blackness, it’s important for Asian Americans to remember that Huang is profiting from hip-hop culture while failing to acknowledge the roots of hip-hop culture literally, Huang is earning money from his memoir about his relationship to Black culture. lol,” invalidating McKenzie’s legitimate criticism and objectifying her.

More importantly, Huang himself was quoted as saying, “I feel like Asian men have been emasculated so much in America that we’re basically treated like Black women.” When queer Black feminist Mia McKenzie questioned Huang about his statement over Twitter, Huang dismissed her by saying, “are we dating cause you wildin. Fresh Off the Boat both reflects and perpetuates this violence by failing to engage in a meaningful discussion on how Asian American men are often responsible for this violence or fail to address it. Misogyny and the violence it engenders in the Asian/Asian American community are problems that occur too often and need to be addressed: two studies conducted in 19 found that 41-61% of Asian American women experience domestic violence in their lifetime. In season one, the episode “The Shunning” features a scene in which a young Eddie Huang fantasizes and objectifies women who dance around him and flirt with him in hyper-sexualized clothing.

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