Chapter Four: Asian American – In American popular culture, the image of the Asian has run the gamut, from exotic orientalism to turn of the century fears of the Yellow Peril; from the sexually emasculated Chinese laundryman to the lascivious and predatory Chinatown shopkeeper; from the Viet Cong to the Japanese corporate samurai. Frank H. Wu writes in his book, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White (Basic Books, 2002), that growing up Asian in America carried with it a bundle of stereotypes, some friendly, some benign, and some outright harmful. In the eyes of white America, because of his race, he could find himself converted into any one of dozens of images attributed to Asians. By David Morse / New America Dimensions