Link roundup

[oyceter]

1. 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:
   

   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)

   
   
   EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! MUST GO SEE!



2. I haven't been blogging about the Don Imus or read up on the mainstream media reports, but other people are. 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.



3. 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?

Comments

[chomiji]

Re point 3 - I find myself wondering whether some of the media overload on the VA Tech shooting has to do with the fact that many people here in the Washington DC area have friends or relatives who went to VA Tech (just for example, one of my sisters-in-law got her Master's there), and then all the major news media outlets have reporters here, so those reporters are hearing a lot of interest and concern about the topic, and are perhaps making some incorrect assumptions about how important it would be to the rest of the world.

Most of the emphasis in this area seems to be on how unstable the gunman was, and whether anything could/should have been done to head this off, given how troubled he clearly was.