Research this week into how caricatures of the late 18thand early 19thcentury reinforce institutional agendas such as the census (relationship between image-making in propaganda and general consensus, bias). Mutually reinforcing.

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/immigration-laws-1800-s-present-c88b03f9-8ed5-4555-84d3-7320964b46be

 

 

Yellow-face.com

Yellowface is another example of the racism prevalent in American culture. Yellowface means more than a white person wearing make-up to look Asian. It also describes the systematic bias against hiring real Asians to play Asian roles shown by white producers, directors, and others who control the depiction of Asians in popular culture through casting decisions and the propagation of racist Asian stereotypes and caricatures.

Racist Asian Stereotypes

When Asian immigrants first arrived in the United States, they were welcomed as cheap labor. But after the California gold rush brought a flood of Asian immigrants to California, the cheap Asian labor began to be seen as a threat. What began as neutral or amusing stereotypical caricatures of Asians soon took on more negative connotations.

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-timeline-immigration-d37d0aad-705d-4f54-b158-bde2310cf2e9

 

Thomas Nast (1840-1902), was an illustrator and cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly from 1857 (1862 full time) to 1887.  In his 30-year career with the magazine, Nast drew approximately 2,250 cartoons.

 

I had a chat with Maria Maciak which was very productive

How to share the objects (which represent the moment in which you were made aware of race)

  1. Assemblages ala my cup
  2. Virtual (VR) which allows people to experience in 3D. the form also has a relationship to “memory” aesthetically in that it is a trace, ephemeral image

 

My version of a census

  1. Online form
  2. No categories, write-in format, only “Other”
  3. Non-race-based categories (objects and question from above)
  4. Question: Is there a specific incident where you received external race-identification that you’d like to share (mine is “where are you from?, no really where?”

 

Reading:

  1. Research into caricatures (articles) – discovered/uncovered #s Chinese Lynching

 

  1. Iris Chang – Japan in Nanjing