The Modern-Day Yellow Peril: CAAAV Protests Against Rising Sun

The entertainment industry is one of the biggest in the United States, being worth an estimated 678 billion USA dollars in 2018 and expected to grow to over 720 billion USA dollars by the end of 2020. This is much bigger than comparable industries, such as sports (71 billion) and IT services (17.5 billion).

The entertainment industry has a significant impact on our lives because we learn from it. We learn about human relationships from entertainment, such as ways to be a good partner, student, friend, parent, or lover—the things we should value in our lives. We also learned about racial stereotypes about one another from the entertainment we consume. We consume stereotypes about women of all races, the LGBTQIA community, African Americans, Jewish Americans, the Lantix community, and East Asian Americans.

This exhibition focuses on CAAAV's efforts to protests against Rising Sun, a major studio picture that featured stereotypes against East Asian Americans. The exhibit aims to build an understanding of Hollywood stereotypes against East Asian Americans.