Notes
1. Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Homes and Abroad, 1876–1917.
2. Prasso, The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient.
3. Ibid., p. 96.
4. Green, Remember Me to Miss Louisa.
5. Baptist, “‘Cuffy,’” ‘Fancy Maids,’ and ‘One-Eyed Men’: Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States,” in American Historical Review.
6. Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist.
7. Ibid., p. 17.
8. Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” in The Lesbian and Gay Reader.
9. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, p. 7.
10. Doane, Femme Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory.
11. Ibid., p. 18.
12. Ibid., p. 19.
13. Ibid., p. 20.
14. Hagedorn, “Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck” in Ms. Magazine, p. 75.
15. Tzioumakis, American Independent Cinema, p. 206.
16. hooks, “Whose Pussy Is This: A Feminist Critique “ in Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies.
17. Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.
18. Brody, Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture, p.7.
19. Johnson, “The Story of Sandra Oh” in Maclean's, a Canadian Weekly Magazine
20. Bhabha, “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse” in Discipleship: A Special Issue on Psychoanalysis, p. 126.
21. Ibid., p. 126.
22. Noriega, Chon. “The Academy's Conundrum.” in Huffington Post.
23. Ono, “Re/membering Spectators: Meditations on Japanese American Cinema” in Countervisions, p. 136.
24. Lawrence, Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre.
25. Harris-Perry, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America.
26. Roberts, Killing the Black Body.
27. Dunn, Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films, p. 109.
28. Ibid., p. 110.
29. Ibid., p. 111.
30. Ibid., p. 110.
31. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street, p. 28.
32. Ibid. p. 90.
33. Ibid. p. 61.
34. Harris-Perry, Sister Citizen.
35. Shimizu, Straitjacket Sexualities.
36. Ibid.
37. Lee, Performing Asian America.
38. Smith, “Joy,” in New York Review of Books.