One-sided Biracial TV Families– Why Are So Many Asian Moms MIA?Posted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Communications/Media Studies, Media Archive, United States on 2015-08-08 00:06Z by Steven |
One-sided Biracial TV Families– Why Are So Many Asian Moms MIA?
AsAmNews
2015-08-05
Laylita Day
I started to notice a disturbing trend among certain TV shows. Each one featured a biracial character, specifically a woman who had an Asian mom and White dad. The disturbing part of this was the fact that none of the Asian moms are actually in the shows with one slight exception. This caught my attention mainly because I too have a White dad and Asian mom. My mother and I are fairly close, so seeing show after show where the biracial daughter has no contact or knowledge of her mother made me feel uneasy. I began to ask myself why there were so many M.I.A. Asian moms in biracial TV families…
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