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Screaming Monkeys Critiques of Asian American Images

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ISBN-10: 1566891418

ISBN-13: 9781566891417

Edition: 2003

Authors: M. Evelina Galang

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When a restaurant review referred to a Filipino child as a "rambunctious -little monkey," Filipino Americans were outraged. Sparked by this racist incident, Screaming Monkeys sets fire to Asian American stereotypes as it -illuminates the diverse and often neglected history and culture within the Asian American diaspora. Poems, essays, paintings, and stories break down and challenge "found" articles, photographs, and headlines to create this powerful anthology with all the immediacy of social protest. By closely critiquing a wealth of material, including the judge's statement of apology in the Wen Ho Lee case, the media treatment of serial killer Andrew Cunanan, and the image of Asian…    
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Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 7/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 500
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.30" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

"Philing Station," a found article from Milwaukee Magazine
Kicking and Screaming
Letters and found images from Milwaukee Magazine
Scream Monkeys, Scream--the e-mails
Savage
American Enterprise cover, found image
The Cleaving
A History of "The Savage," found images
Salvaging the Savage: On Representing Filipinos and Remembering American Empire
Interracial Marriages, found text
Transaction
America Is in the Heart
Pluto in a Plato
Chin
On Teaching Filipinos
My Country Versus Me
Statement by Judge Parker to Wen Ho Lee, September 13, 2000
Andrew Cunanan or The Manhunt for Philippine America
Henessey ad
History
Untitled
Surrogate Slaves to American Dreamers, an excerpt from Helen Zia's Asian American Dreams
Statements by American Presidents, found text
The Day the Dancers Came
Chinese Exclusion Act, a U.S. government document
White and Wong
Presidential Caricatures, found images
Hello, Nuremberg
Homeland Memories and Media: Filipino Images and Imaginations in America
Reverse Racism
Why Are We Here? Thoughts on Asian-American Identity and Honoring Asian-Americans in Congress
A General Timeline of the Asian American Experience
Women
Skyy Vodka ad, found image
She Casts Off Expectations, an excerpt from Warrior Lessons
Gidra response to Skyy Vodka
Fifty-Fifty
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow
Take Me Out
Chronicle
You bring out the filipina in me
Four Million
Go Geisha, found images
Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck
A Few Words on Rome, or The Neighbor Who Never Waves
SEXploitation within the Asian American Community, found images
Meena's Curse
Report No. 49, by United States Army Forces India-Burma Theater
Red Lines Across the Map
Culture
Culture in a Box, found images
Mirror Mirror Tea Tea
I Wanna Marry a Haole so I Can Have a Haole Last Name
Untitled
Assignment
Untitled
Hello Kitty
Sumo-esque
A Blue Boy in a Picasso Painting
Gridlock
The Rules of the Game
Southeast Indian Images
Summer of Bruce
Untitled
Ancient Chinese Secrets and Little White Lies
A Lavender Army
AGFA scanner ad, found image
Race and Representation: Asian Americans
Untitled
Headlines and Quotes from Mainstream America
Men
The Next Trophy Boyfriends, found article from Newsweek
Fargo and the Asian American Male
Gidra response to Newsweek plus letters to Newsweek editors
The Barbarians Are Coming
Untitled
Satta Massagana
Findings of a Recent Inquiry into the Background and Causes of a Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Case of an American Subject of Filipino Descent
The Boy Fell
The Two Filipinos
When Heroes Are Not Dead: An Essay in Two Voices
Solitary in a Strange Land
Five Rice Queens
When Fidelito Is the New Boy at School
The Price of Eggs in China
War
Graffiti Images
President Theodore Roosevelt's Proclamation Formally Ending the Philippine "Insurrection" and Granting of Pardon and Amnesty, found text
Voices of Imperialism and War, found text
The Ancient Baguio Dead
Talking About the Woman in Cholon
Untitled
Executive Order Number 9066, U.S. government document
Drawing the Line
Apology of Bill Clinton to Japanese America, found text
Honor, 1946
Justifying U.S. Assistance to Filipino War Veterans
"More Fun Than a Turkey Shoot,"
South Wind Changing
Dictee
Black Korea
Blue Dreams
Caught Prey
Body Search
On the Other Side of Granite
Storefront, found images
Wilshire Bus
Antiwar Statement of Filipino Educators, found text
Anti-Asian Incidents, found text
A History of Anti-Asian Violence, found text, compiled
Transcendence
Untitled
Nobility
Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXIX
Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXX
After My Chronology by Peter Lorre
Litany no. m
They Grew Up to Be Lovely
Labandera
Axolotl
In Your Honor
Time for Pause
I'm Still Warm
Untitled
One-Man Show, an excerpt from Tripmaster Monkey
Making Sense of Screaming: A Monkey's Companion
Contributors' Notes
Acknowledgments