How Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Echo Hollywood’s Failings
variety.comAnna May Wong, who could only get a foothold in the industry by playing prostitutes and temptresses. She famously said that her tombstone should read “she died a thousand deaths,” since her tragic characters were never allowed a happy ending with their white male love interests — not least because such relationships were actually illegal, given anti-miscegenation laws.Baker said that the Atlanta shooter saw the spas he targeted as holding “a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate.” Calling Asian women “a temptation” arguably harkened Hollywood’s long history of depicting Asian female characters in interracial relationships with a subtext of white anxiety, as seen in “Daughter of the Dragon” (1931), “The World of Suzie Wong” (1960),.
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