Using humor to rebuke racist caricatures and racial exclusion in 'Mr. Yunioshi' at Off-Broadway's SoHo Playhouse by Deb Miller

In the 1961 Paramount Pictures film adaptation of Truman Capote's 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, Hollywood icon and big-name draw Mickey Rooney was cast in the small and significantly reimagined role of the Japanese American photographer and upstairs neighbor Mr. Yunioshi. His infamously offensive racist caricature and the studio's objectionably clueless cross-ethnic casting inspired creator/performer […]

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