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The Problem With Apu Is A Problem With America


The Problem With Apu Is A Problem With America - Medium

Consider the genesis of his name: While “Apu” comes from Bengali director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, “Nahasapeemapetilon” is a mocking ...

'The Problem with Apu' and the American immigrant stories that aren ...

Hari Kondabolu has been thinking about how he fits into America for some time. Growing up the son of Indian immigrants, he has experienced ...

The Problem With 'The Problem With Apu' - Tablet Magazine

As if we needed another reminder that American life these days is a bubbling cauldron of rage and resentment, comedian Hari Kondabolu, ...

What did people think of 'The Problem With Apu'? : r/television - Reddit

For about the first 10 years of The Simpsons there was no other representation of Indian culture on US TV. Now we have a few other shows, like ...

My Epiphany About the Problem With Apu - The New Republic

The Problem With Apu, a documentary last year by Hari Kondabolu, a New York–born comedian who is the child of Indian-American immigrants.

Don't get rid of Apu. He's a hero to many of us. As an Indian ... - Reddit

Indian-American comedian Hari Kondabolu made a documentary last year called The Problem with Apu, whose main argument is that Apu, as one of the ...

The Problem with Apu - Wikipedia

The Problem with Apu is a 2017 American documentary film written by and starring comedian Hari Kondabolu and produced and directed by Michael Melamedoff.

The Problem with “The Problem with Apu” - sisyphus

Thus, it contributes to the kind black-(or brown)-and-white thinking that permeates American-style identity politics, creating an atmosphere of polarisation ...

The Problem with Apu: A Great Start to an Overdue Conversation

The Problem with Apu is an earnest investigation of how and why this character came to be, and its lasting impact on how South Asian Americans are viewed.

The Problem with Apu, Whiteness, and Racial Hierarchies in US ...

The problem is threefold. Apu is a racist stereotype of South Asian Americans; despite or perhaps because of that, Apu is a beloved and iconic character in ...

What's the problem with Apu on The Simpsons? - Quora

There have been recent, perhaps inevitable, complaints that Apu, portrayed by the American actor Hank Azaria, represents a stereotype of ...

The Problem with Apu Does Not Deserve to Be Taken Seriously

“I hate Apu,” actor Kal Penn tells Kondabolu in the documentary, where Kondabolu proceeds to demand that Apu be voiced by an Indian American or ...

The problems with The Problem With Apu | CBC News

And to other Indians? Many of us do the Indian accent in our stand-up acts to solely Indian audiences, and they laugh. The Indian accent sounds ...

“The Problem with Apu” and the FCC | Los Angeles Review of Books

Around this time, other South Asian comedians were also doing rundowns of how far representations of us had come. A pre–Daily Show Hasan Minhaj ...

The Soft Racism of Apu from “The Simpsons” | The New Yorker

“The Problem with Apu” doubles as a film about what it means to be South Asian in the American imagination. All the other performers of ...

My Problems With: The Problems with The Problem with Apu

Okay, let's do this… The Problem with Apu is a 2017 made-for-TV documentary made by Indian-American comedian Hari Kondabolu for TruTV. It talks ...

The problem with Apu's critics - Spiked

The Simpsons is going to kill off Apu, its iconic, but recently controversial, Indian-American character. This comes after the release of activist-comedian ...

Review: 'The Problem With Apu' & Lack Of Representation

I'm not the only South Asian American Apu has been haunting, either; comedian Hari Kondabolu is so displeased by the character, that he made a ...

There's Nothing Wrong With Apu - The Science Survey

A first-generation Indian American like myself, Kondabolu has dealt with the stereotypes that the 'The Simpsons' has emulated his whole life. In ...

Comedian Hari Kondabolu on the response to The Problem With Apu

See, Kondabolu is also a tremendously funny stand-up comedian, someone who tells jokes about racism and the divisiveness of American politics, ...