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Yellow Peril revisited: Exposing sinophobia in everyday America

Content Warning: mentions of racially motivated crimes against Asian people, sexual violence Bright Sheng, a University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance professor,  temporarily stepped down from teaching after he played the 1965 version of “Othello,” in which the actor Laurence Olivier wore Blackface, without an advance content warning. While students expressed rightful […]