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Third ThursdaysThird Thursdays is a monthly dinner series for people in the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors interested in Asian American & Pacific Islander (AA&PI) community issues and service opportunities. |
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ArchivesWelcome to the Third Thursdays Archive. We've included information about our past programs and encourage you to include comments about related resources that others may find useful. If you have any questions about our past programs, please email us at ! If you'd like to follow the comments for a specific program, try subscribing to the RSS feeds. Simply copy the "RSS feed for comments on this post" link into your favorite blogging software. September 21, 2006Race War for Dollars?: Will the API Image in America Survive Survivor?Thursday, September 21, 2006 Its blockbuster success helped usher in the onslaught of reality programming and seared the phrase “voted off the island” into the American vocabulary. You know the drill: 20 contestants, a remote island, plotting, backstabbing, cat fighting, irregular bowel movements, and a million dollars up for grabs. Survivor returns for yet another season, but this time with a new twist that one contestant calls “potentially dangerous” and host Jeff Probst deems a “social experiment on a level we’ve never done before”. Survivor deals out the race card and segregates the contestants along racial lines into four tribes: “African American”, “Asian-American”, “Hispanic”, and “White”. Come join us this month for a fun and lively viewing and discussion of this season’s racially-charged Survivor. With a cast now fully one-fourth Asian American, does CBS’s move mark a positive step forward for APA representation in the media, or is it simply tokenization on a grand scale to revive a dying show? Do you agree that the ethnic tribes should feel a pressure to “represent” their communities? Will the rice diet be an advantage for the Asian American tribe? |
