#ethnic identity
Stereotypes & Tropes Navigation
Navigation of WWC asks and guides that discuss stereotypes and tropes.
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Note:This page may not include every race or ethnic identity as discussed on this blog unless tropes/stereotypes were specifically addressed on given race.
UPDATED MAY 2017
- Authenticity and PoC
- Stereotyping Tropes List
- Character Creation: Trace Your Logic
- Avoiding Racial and Patriarchal Stereotypes
- Stereotyped vs Nuanced Characters, Audience Perception *Recommended*
- PoC Character Deaths
- PoC Character Roles
- PoC + Music
- PoC Sidekicks
- PoC + Sports Tropes
- White Savior Tropes
- Avoiding Hypersexualization and Desexualization
- Stereotypes, Women of Color, and Webcomics
- WoC and Romantic Relationships
- Aloof Asian
- Bad Drivers
- Colored Hair
- Dragon Lady
- “Green-eyed Asian”
- Smart Asian
- Submissive Asian
- Asexual Asian Man
- Asian American Women Stereotypes
- Musician Asian Stereotype
- Absent Black Father
- Angry Black Woman
- Black Best Friend
- Black Person Dies First
- Family Life Tropes
- “Ghetto” Names
- Infantilization
- Magical Negro
- Mammy
- Sacrificial Negro
- Sassy Black Woman
- Scary Black Man
- Strong Black Woman
- Slavery Ties (Why We Always Gotta be Slaves?)
- Common Micro-aggressions against Black People
Latinx and Mexican
Muslim
- Normalized Slur Use
- Rromani Fortune teller
- Rromani Tropes 101 Masterpost *By Rrojasandribbons*
Shady Hafez on Being Algonquin and Syrian
A reflection on his First Nations and Arab identity
“Ottawa’s Muslim community is full of uncommon mixed race identities, but Shady Hafez, 22, might be an original. Born in Ottawa, the son of an Algonquin mother from the Kitigan Zibi reservation and a Muslim father from Syria, Shady was raised in two worlds, each misunderstanding of the other, and both misunderstood by mainstream Western culture.”
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Progress or Empty Promises in Cambodia?
A few weeks ago, I detailed the issue of nationalist politics and ethnic identity in Cambodia.
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