Large buckteeth, slanted eyes reduced to mere slits, and mustard yellow skin are among the images of Asian Americans that artist Roger Shimomura paints and collects. In Shimomura's art stereotype representations of Asian Americans are not solely created from his imagination. Instead, they are appropriated from hundreds of objects circulated within popular culture that he has amassed over a 20-year period. The extensive collection, including approximately 300 salt and pepper shakers, masks, song books, movie posters, buttons, magazines and comics, testifies to the numerous variations of Asian and Asian American stereotypes that were produced in various historic moments.

Yellow Terror: The Collections and Paintings of Roger Shimomura

Uradomo-Barre, Stacy

2009

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