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Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1984)
Linda Hunt’s yellow-face performance of a Chinese-Australian photographer working in Jakarta not only won her an Academy Award, but was also included in an Academy Award 2018 montage showing past Best Supporting Actress winners. Hollywood has a long…
No Japs Wanted Graffiti, 1945
The image shows a vandalization on the home of Chiseko and Shigeo Nagaishi the day they returned from the internment camps known as the Minidoka War Relocation Center. Despite being unwelcome, Chiseko Nagaishi remained in the home until her death in…
Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips, 1944
Nip and Jap rose in popularity to the point of ubiquity and desensitization, as evidenced in this Merrie Melodies cartoon produced by Warner Bros. In this title card, Bugs Bunny is painting the Rising Sun Flag, which was adopted by the Imperial…
Evidence of Disloyalty of American-Born Japanese booklet, 1945
This booklet was published by the Remember Pearl Harbor League who were outraged that Japanese-Americans were being released from Internment Camps. The booklet characterizes all Japanese-Americans as “alien enemies” and calls for their deportation.…