Devin Kawaoka

From Shrinking to Interior Chinatown, contemporary television frequently reduces mixed-race characters to mere aesthetic window dressing. Addie Tsai explores the shallow tropes, tokenism, and persistent erasure facing mixed Asian/white representation on screen.
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