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161 (see also the Appendix, Hispanic, Chicana/o Films). In the 1970s the Hispanic community did not generate its version of the blaxploitation films, although in Mr Majestyk (1974) Charles Bronson would play a half-Mexican, half-Slavic superhero (Keller, 1994, p. 160). The Hispanic and Chicano civil rights movement helped put the The Frito Bandito, Chiquita Banana, and José Jiménez to rest (Keller, 1994, p. 162). The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982) and El Norte (1983), products of the Chicano Cinema Coalition, challenged classical treatments of the Hispanic outlaw and the ‘illegal’ immigrant.
Wong (1978, p. 215) offers this example from Chinatown (1974). ’ The speech of Carmen Miranda, the best-known Latin American actress of the 1940s, for example, was constantly characterized by the presence of ‘cultural impurities ... disturbing syncretisms ... accents ... shifting registers of tone and pitch ... and linguistic malapropisms’ (López, 1991, p. 416). As Valdivia (1996) observes for Latinos, ‘the endurance of the accent in the stereotypes stems from the mistaken characterization of all Latinos as recent, and quite often illegal, immigrants’ (p.
56 Chan, Moto, and Wong became positive stand-ins for the negative Asian other, and the ‘Yellow Peril,’ even as their characters critiqued and made a parody of the Eurocentric racist stereotypes that were ascribed to them (see also Shohat, 1991, p. 238). The mollifying influence of the Chan series is continuous, from the advent of sound to the present. During the 1930s Hollywood ignored internal Asian struggles, and those wars when Asians fought one another, including the Japanese invasion of China in 1937.
