The 25-page excerpt in Shojo Beat will allow readers to see the roots of modern manga, and its appearance coincides with a major exhibit of Tezuka's work at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco that will open this summer. (emphasis added)
I also haven't commented on the Virginia Tech shootings or read up on most of the mainstream media reports. First of all, it is a horrible, horrible thing, and my sympathies go out to the survivors and all the families. Secondly, I share hesychasm's unease in bringing race into this, but as it seems to be getting dragged in anyway, here are some bits of commentary from the Asian-American sphere, most of whom are, like me, afraid of backlash. Hyphen Blog has a collection of links. Claire Light's also got a reaction, particularly on Cho's background as a 1.5 generation Asian.
Again, this is not to gloss over the awfulness of what happened, but just... Damnit. Why can't I be allowed to mourn like everyone else and instead have to fear what's going to be in the media next about Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants and third-culture kids?
I'm not you, of course, but I'm beginning to see more of a focus on his medical/psychological background than his ethnicity. The fact that he stopped to mail a package to NBC between the first set of killings and the second has pretty much blown all the other speculation out of the water.
FWIW: I think the biggest story here is going to be how someone who is so supremely fucked up could slide through the system like that and nobody did anything to help him. And then universities are going to start requiring students with mental health issues to either get treatment or withdraw, and won't that be a fun argument?
That does seem to be where the story is heading now, at least from the few articles I've read today. It sounds awful to be relieved, because it's not as though the argument about mental health and treatment is going to be fun. Sigh. Lots of tangled stuff ahead.
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octopedingenue has already mentioned it, but Shojo Beat will be publishing an excerpt of Tezuka's Ribon no Kishi. Whoo! Must remember to buy that issue. Also, for anyone interested and in the area, the article also mentions:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ap_racism has got a Tim Wise article on the media backlash, and Claire Light has break down of all the wrongness in the responses.
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FWIW: I think the biggest story here is going to be how someone who is so supremely fucked up could slide through the system like that and nobody did anything to help him. And then universities are going to start requiring students with mental health issues to either get treatment or withdraw, and won't that be a fun argument?
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