Sex, Gender, and the Asian/Oriental

Published: July 11, 2018, noon

b'How Chinese and Japanese people were depicted and treated in San Francisco had a lot to do with the creation of the American \\u201cOriental,\\u201d argues Amy Sueyoshi in a new book. She links stereotypical portrayals of Asians to the process by which white San Franciscans viewed and addressed changes to their own sexual norms and gender roles.\\nAmy Sueyoshi, Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American \\u201cOriental\\u201d University of Illinois Press, 2018\\n\\xa0\\nThe post Sex, Gender, and the Asian/\\u201cOriental\\u201d appeared first on KPFA.'