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The Three-Tiered Racial Hierarchy and its Import to Asian (American) Representation as the "Model Minority" in The Island of Dr. Moreau
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David S. Neale Lewis Gordon AA 10 August 25, 1999 The Three-Tiered Racial Hierarchy and its Import to Asian (American) Representation as the "Model Minority" in The Island of Dr. Moreau As Naomi Zack details in "The Island of Dr. Moreau: Confused Images of Race and Specie," there is a racial subtext to all three film versions of H. G. Wells' novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau. After analyzing and comparing these three versions, Zack details the various ways that the characters in the story are consistently racialized, concluding that "[i]n all of its forms, the story enforces the transcendant superiority of white European man" (52). When I viewed the most recent film version of the story-the one produced in 1996- I, too, noticed the racial subtext in the film, which Zack believes asserts white European dominance. What I also noticed, however, was the way the racial subtext hierarchically structures the races beyond the...
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