Racialization

Spanish Team's Racist Gestures Not Simply 'Lost in Translation'

I previously posted an image of an ad done by the Spanish Basketball team doing the slanted-eye Chinese stereotype gesture and have debated the issue for days on a Toronto FC message board (the thread has now been closed).

Props to the Chinese Canadian National Council for demanding an apology from the team *(link at the bottom).

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Israel to kick out every Asian restaurant worker

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Israel will kick out every Asian restaurant worker by the end of the year. "We feel an Israeli can hold a wok as well as a Thai or a Chinese person," says a Trade Ministry official in charge of work permits.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=125911

Utterly ridicules, hopefully the Israeli workers won't allow this blatant racism.

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The Rhetoric of Inclusion: The I.W.W. and Asian Workers

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http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1999/choi.html

The IWW was one of few labour unions that saw past the rhetoric, and understood that the bourgeois was attempting to divide the working class. One of the more positive accounts of the circumstances faced by Asian immigrants in North America, where they were alienated both by the ruling class and their fellow workers, the IWW would not just take up "Workers of the World, Unite!" as a slogan, but would take it to heart.

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