https://padlet.com/mattbailey1/3keosu5t7u8tf8sa While working on American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang came across a political cartoon from April 2001 in which the artist seemed to invoke 19th-century stereotypes about Chinese people. Looking back on his discovery of this cartoon, Yang recalls, “Pat Oliphant drew this political cartoon of Uncle Sam going into a Chinese restaurant and being served by a slant-eyed, bucktoothed waiter. He’s served a plate of ‘crispy fried cat gizzards with noodles.’ So, when I saw that, to me, it was obvious […] that Oliphant was drawing from the same old racist roots.”14 How might Wang’s construction of Chin-Kee amount to a commentary on the stereotypes in Oliphant’s cartoon? When read through the lens of this cartoon, how might the scene in which Chin-Kee eats lunch at Danny’s high school be significant? How might the name of Danny’s high school be significant? en-us 2022-02-24 14:58:09 UTC 2022-03-01 15:20:35 UTC hello@padlet.com kylerd801 https://padlet.com/mattbailey1/3keosu5t7u8tf8sa/wish/2066592227 I think that they used his noise level as an example of a asien stereotype. I also think that they used the food as a stereotype. Like in the comic it is noodles and cats. Which is a huge stereotype in the asien community that they eat cats and dogs. And in the book you can see his mean that he got for lunch is a dead cat and some noodles 

]]> 2022-02-25 15:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mattbailey1/3keosu5t7u8tf8sa/wish/2066592227 gianmarco_b079 https://padlet.com/mattbailey1/3keosu5t7u8tf8sa/wish/2066599538 He takes the character and uses his stereotypes in Chin-Kee, even having him eat the exact same meal served in this cartoon. Chin-kee eating the meal at lunch shows the appropriation of the stereotype, and the appropriation of how people view it. The name of Danny's school, along with the food Chin-Kee eats there, is in direct reference to Pat Oliphants cartoon. This shows the racist impact of his cartoon, and makes him infamous.]]> 2022-02-25 16:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mattbailey1/3keosu5t7u8tf8sa/wish/2066599538 ashleyw117 https://padlet.com/mattbailey1/3keosu5t7u8tf8sa/wish/2066917006 Yang took this hateful political stereotype character and placed him in this story, to show how awful these stereotypes are. Yang even has Chin-kee, whos name is a play on a hateful Chinese slur, eat the same thing stated in the political comic. In the lunch room scene we see Chin-kee eat crispy fried cat gizzards with noodles, showing that yang really wanted to tie that comic to his story. It also all fits since the high school that Danny and chin-kee are going to is named Oliphant High school, which is the name of the person who wrote the political comic.]]> 2022-02-25 19:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mattbailey1/3keosu5t7u8tf8sa/wish/2066917006