Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films
constructed America’s image of Chinese Americans from their
criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance
when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America’s yellow peril
fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination with
Chinatowns. Philippa Gates examines Hollywood’s responses to
social issues in Chinatown communities, primarily immigration,
racism, drug trafficking, and prostitution, as well as the impact
of industry factors including the Production Code and star system
on the treatment of those subjects. Looking at over 200 films,
Gates reveals the variety of racial representations within American
film in the first half of the twentieth century and brings to light
not only lost and forgotten films but also the contributions of
Asian American actors whose presence onscreen offered important
alternatives to Hollywood’s yellowface fabrications of Chinese
identity and a resistance to Hollywood’s Orientalist narratives.
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