Economic Choices, the Media, and Racism      The Structural
Problem       Individual Economic Behavior as One Source of
Action         Sexism in Racist Tones  Last spring UCLA was the
site of a YouTube rant by a former student who was white non-
Hispanic, about “Asians in the library” including her version of
“Asian speak”- sociologists call this and other derogatory
verbage against a group ethnophaulisms. Much of the work on the
sociology of race focuses on the influence of the dominant group
over subordinate groups; in the case of the US it usually refers
to the influence of white non-Hispanics over non-whites. The
Alexandra Wallace case is one of these. This is pretty
straightforward racism and its significance is due in part to
the public platform of YouTube used to convey her thoughts and
feelings.  But I was reminded of the Wallace incident because it
was implicitly linked to a more recent incident that seemed
somewhat ambiguous. On Tuesday November 27th, the Vietnamese
Student Union of UCLA had a banner