The Five Chinese Brthers

The Five Chinese Brothers is a book I read when I was young. The story Is nothing to get excited about, it is simply a story that has probably been passed from generation to generation and was finally put in to into a book. The story however is not the problem it is the pictures that make this book what it is. All the pictures are much like the one above. All the pictures feature Chinese people with eye that are slanted, they are all happy, they are yellow in color, and they all are typically wearing the same thing.

This is similar to the way that African American slaves were shown as happy and willing to work. This book also relates the comic book covers that we looked at in class. The Chines in these illustrations are the same way, they seem happy all the time and willing to serve. As well as the Chinese that are shown are very stereotypical in the way they look in the artwork that is displayed in this children's book.

I think this book pokes fun at Chinese people and I'm a bit concerned that this is being shown to children. I remember reading this story as a child and the story itself is not something I would want me child to be exposed to, that combined with the art makes for a child with a skewed outlook on the world.