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Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time: Lights, Camera and Little Action
URL: http://www.advancingequality.org/files/NAPALC_report_final.pdf

Description:
A study commissioned "to look beyond the raw numbers analyzed and graded in the annual report card [from the Asian Pacific American Media Coalition (APAMC)] and evaluate the type, quality, and complexity of characters portrayed by APIA [Asian Pacific Islander American] actors, as well as APIA actors of mixed ethnicities." It "systematically investigates the portrayal of APIAs on prime time television." From the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC). Opens directly into a PDF document.

Author:
jjohnson@napalc.org

Publisher:
National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Actors -- United States
Asian Americans
Asian Americans on television
Pacific Islander Americans

LII Database Information:
Record 456 created by Wendy Hyman on 07/24/2005
Last modification on 11/03/2005
Last review by Tom McGibney on 11/02/2005
Published: 07/24/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/456