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Asian Americans in Film, Toll of the Sea tollofthesea, "Color-as-hue,…

- - - - Yellow Peril
  - - - Masculinity
- - - - Just because some Americans were feeling these economic frustrations, they felt entitled to a person's life they believed to be Japanese, almost as if the life was dispensable for the sake of their emotional release.
        
        Dispensability of Asians
      - Yellow Peril
- - - - cinematic trope in which a white character rescues people of color from their plight, learning something about themselves in the process.
  - - - Hyper-sexualization of Asian Women
- - - - Teaching Tao on how to act, how to behave to make it in the white society
        
        Goes over to fix the neighbors house all the time
        
        Because Walt considers himself to be "equipped with the tools to navigate life in the U.S.", he sets out to "man up" and save Tao, his Hmong neighbor. Walt doesn't believe Tao to have the "necesary life skills not the heteronormative masculinity" he needs to make it as an immigrant in America.
        
        "History on the Run" by Wa Vang
        
        Masculinity
      - Sue faces sexual harassment and violence throughout the film, and this displays the common treatment of Hmong women as "exoticized subjects".
        
        Hypersexualization of Asian Women
      - "infantilizes the Hmong siblings as children who need saving from their debilitating community and culture where there are no Hmong adult men"
- - - - “A go-go dancer? …… Not ballet”
      - Gender Roles
    - - Cultural Expectations
    - - Gao, from the harshness and blunt expression from her father regarding her pregnancy, must know that she is acting outside of expectations by being single and pregnant. But when it comes to Wil, she is unwilling to accept her homosexuality. Part of this could be because she still feels trapped by her father to marry a societally accepted man, and not the man she actually loves. So until Gao is able to break societal expectations to be with the one she loves, her generational trauma keeps her from letting her daughter stray from the same expectations.
        
        Generational Trauma
  - - - “Whither Asian American Lesbian Feminist Thought?" by Huang
- - - - Model Minority
  - - - Collectivism
- - - - "At the Crossroads of Two Empires" by Urmila Seshagiri
      - "Double Diaspora"
    - - " shared sense of displacement produces a seemingly mutual support system between the African Americans and the Indians in Greenwood"