research
- The Hollywood Reporter: “Asians and Pacific Islanders Account for Less Than 6 Percent of Speaking Roles in Hollywood Films, Study Finds”
- The Daily Targum: “‘Neve Have I Ever’ Been So Conflicted by South Asian Representation”
- Asian Americans’ Writers’ Workshop: “No Longer ‘Apu,’ Not Yet Beyond ‘Mindy’”
- The Washington Post: “‘The Mindy Project’ was Never Really Woke. But at Least it Starred a South Asian Woman”
- Loyola University Chicago eCommons: “Just Like Everyone Else? Locating South Asians in 21st Century American Popular Media”
- Raja Kumari Talks I Did It, Fall Out Boy & Indian Culture; Zach Sang Show
- Raja Kumari: So Far | A Short Film by Sony
- Bollywood Versus Hollywood: Battle of the Dream Factories
Peer Reviewed Scholarly Sources:
- Davé, Shilpa. “Racial Accents, Hollywood Casting, and Asian American Studies.” Cinema Journal, vol. 56 no. 3, 2017, p. 142-147. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cj.2017.0030.
- Shankar, P. Ravi, and P. Subish. “Fair skin in South Asia: an obsession?.” Journal of Pakistan Association of Dermatologists 17 (2007): 100-104.
- Sharma, Rekha. “Desi films: Articulating images of South Asian Identity in a global communication environment.” Global media journal 4.1 (2011): 127.
- Teo, Stephen. “Film and globalization: from Hollywood to Bollywood.” The Routledge international handbook of globalization studies. Routledge, 2013. 434-450.
seshmila jay
- “Bhindi” by Seshmila Jay
- Brown Girl Magazine
- Raja Kumari ‘Believe in You’
- Baby Keem ‘Honest’ (Official Video)
- Netflix ‘New Girl’
- Maejor & Greeicy ‘I Love You’
- Deadline: “Twentieth Television’s Reena Singh And Hillman Grad’s Rishi Rajani Launch ‘The Salon’ South Asian Mentorship Program”
- Deadline: “‘Modern Family’ Writer-Producer Vali Chandrasekaran Inks 20th TV Overall Deal”
- Vali Chandrasekaran on set of ‘Modern Family’
mukta mohan
- The Michelle Obama Podcast
- Renegades: Born in the USA Podcast
- Hotel Figueroa: “Meet DJ Mukta Mohan”
- Higher Ground Logo
- LMU Magazine: “Amped Up”
- Babes Who Hustle: Mukta Mohan – New Show Development, Crooked Media
- The Hundreds: “Girl School: DJ Mukta Mohan”
- ‘Master of None’ Poster
- Netflix ‘Master of None’
- Next Shark: “Asian American Actors Are STILL Being Used as ‘Tokens’ on TV, Study Finds”
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas: News Center: “Unpacking How Media Influences Our Views on Racism”
- Brown Girl Magazine: “South Asian Representation Worth Celebrating on TV in 2019”
- ‘Aladdin’ Image
- “Racial Identity and Media Orientation: Exploring the Nature of Constraint”
- Scholars Strategy Network: How Racial Stereotypes in Popular Media Affect People — and What Hollywood Can Do to Become More Inclusive
- Popsugar: “The 5 Best TV Shows to Watch Now If You’re South Asian”
- Vice: “South Asian Actors Are Fighting Hollywood’s Racism”
- Tell Them, I Am Podcast
- Variety: “Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions Sets New Slate of Netflix TV, Film Projects”
sweta rai
- Sweta Rai Website
- VoyageLA: “Meet Sweta Rai of Indo Holly Films in Downtown LA”
- Brown Girl Magazine: “Hollywood Film Producer and Entrepreneur Sweta Rai Makes Waves With her Lockdown Film”
- ABC ‘Quantico’
- Hulu ‘The Mindy Project’
- Kumail Nanjiani ‘Eternals’
- Bollywood Dance ‘Eternals’
- Netflix ‘Never Have I Ever’
- Dev Patel ‘Lion’
- The Cut: “The Indian Model Breaking Colorism Barriers”
- NBC News: “How protests led to a critique of Bollywood’s colorism and a reckoning for South Asians”
- Vogue: “Model Nidhi Sunil opens up about being trolled for having dark skin”
- NBC News: “Skin lightening cream ‘Fair & Lovely’ to change name after backlash”
- Bole Chudiyan Music Video
- Netflix ‘Indian Matchmaking’ Trailer