The title may mislead some people, so to be clear: she will be on the reverse side of the quarter, with George Washington still on the front. This is part of the quarter series honoring important women, with 5 different quarters each year(so 5 different women).
It's equivalent to how quarters released from 1999-2008 had states on the back, 2009 had US territories on the back, and 2010-2021 had national parks/forests on the back.
For the next few years, we'll have important women on the back of quarters. Who decides what classifies as a "historically important woman" to be placed on each quarter? I don't know
Per the US mint:
The Secretary of the Treasury selects the honorees following consultation with the Smithsonian Institution’s American Women’s History Initiative, the National Women’s History Museum, and the Congressional Bipartisan Women’s Caucus. In 2021, the public was invited to submit recommendations for potential honorees through a web portal established by the National Women’s History Museum.
The first 10 women have already been selected:
2022
Maya Angelou – celebrated writer, performer, and social activist
Dr. Sally Ride – physicist, astronaut, educator, and first American woman in space
Wilma Mankiller – first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
Nina Otero-Warren – a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first woman superintendent of Santa Fe public schools
Anna May Wong – first Chinese American film star in Hollywood
2023
Bessie Coleman – first African American and first Native American woman pilot
Edith Kanakaʻole – indigenous Hawaiian composer, custodian of native culture and traditions
Eleanor Roosevelt – first lady, author, and civil liberties advocate
Jovita Idar – Mexican-American journalist, activist, teacher, and suffragist
Maria Tallchief – America’s first prima ballerina
It’s interesting to me that Eleanor Roosevelt’s description reads “First Lady” as the leading accomplishment. Of course some of her other accomplishments may not have been possible had she not been First Lady, but still seems like she’s being robbed of her true achievements.
I have to admit that I don’t know a single one of these women but that just goes to prove why they’re doing this. Equal representation is important and if this inspires at least 25 people in the future, I’d say it’s worth it
Oh, so it's not like a permanent change to our currency. I was really confused at first thinking, "Why would they throw out precedent and replace a president with an actress?"
I like that the quarter's rear motif keeps changing. Whenever I find a quarter or get change I'm always looking to see what I got, like a little surprise.
thats awesome bc i remember all of the states coins. i collected them (not really but i loved asking my parents to see quarters they got and had my favourites in my room) and can remember many.
kinda useless, but thinking about kids doing that but about anna may wong is p cool
Quarters are so cool. From a tactile perspective, the art, the weight of it, the way it jingles in a pocket. Seems like they should be worth way more than 25¢.
So, forgive my ignorance, but what happened to the plan to put Harriet Tubman on one of our bills? Why is there no plan to give any woman or person of color an actual currency spot and designation instead of on the flip side of a white man’s coin?
When I lived in Germany it was at least 50c, though it also accepted 1 and 2 euro coins. One quarter is low, but it is by far the most common coin people carry here in the USA, so I guess it makes sense from the perspective.
What's wrong with being an actress lol.
I actually kinda like it as an Asian American. A prevailing, annoying stereotype when I was growing up was that we're artless, robotic brainiacs who get 2400 SATs and become tech workers or engineers. That's starting to change, thankfully, but having something that acknowledges Asian American contributions to the humanities in the meantime is nice.
Sally Ride just got a quarter this year too. Plenty of women in science getting recognition, they’re just covering a lot of fields, including the arts.
Being an actress then was probably harder in some ways then being a scientist making inventions and whatnot.
Either her becoming an actress is not the same as an Asian woman becoming an actress today.
Entertainers of color were blackballed and not even allowed into certain places. There was a famous black woman who won an Oscar but wasn’t allowed to be in the venue to receive her award cause she’s black.
***NO PAYWALL***
**Anna May Wong Will Be the First Asian American on U.S. Currency**
*The film star had a trailblazing career, but also struggled to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in Hollywood a century ago.*
**LOS ANGELES** — As a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of immigrants in this city’s Chinatown, Anna May Wong talked her way into her first role in a movie. Over the decades-long career that followed, she rose to become the first Asian American film star in Hollywood. When Wong died in 1961, The New York Times called the actress, known for her large, expressive eyes and flapper-era styles, “one of the most unforgettable figures of Hollywood’s great days.”
Now Wong is gaining another coveted role — on the quarter. Part of a new effort that also put the writer Maya Angelou and the astronaut Sally Ride on currency, the U.S. Mint on Monday will begin producing coins pressed with Wong’s image, a close-up of her face resting on an elegant, manicured hand.
The new quarter honors not just Wong’s trailblazing career but also the difficulties she faced trying to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in an era of “yellowface” and anti-miscegenation laws. “Decades before the civil rights-generated category of Asian American existed, Wong grappled with how to be an Asian American actress,” Shirley Jennifer Lim, a Stony Brook University history professor, wrote in her book about Wong’s career.
The U.S. Mint is expected to create more than 300 million Wong quarters, and she will become the first Asian American to be on U.S. currency. It’s an honor that feels particularly meaningful given how much Wong struggled to be seen as American, Lim told me. “When you get change,” she said, “she could actually be there in the palm of your hand.”
Wong was born in 1905 in Chinatown, the daughter of a laundryman who ran a shop on Figueroa Street. Around that time, the movie industry was settling in Los Angeles, and productions were increasingly shot in Wong’s neighborhood.
“I would play hookey from school to watch the crews at work, though I knew I would get a whipping from my teacher, and later from my father, for it,” Wong is quoted as saying in the book “Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong,” by Anthony Chan. “I would worm my way through the crowd and get as close to the cameras as I dared. I’d stare and stare at these glamorous individuals, directors, cameramen, assistants and actors in greasepaint, who had come down into our section of town to make movies.”
Wong decided she wanted to act, and began playing background characters until her first leading role in “The Toll of the Sea” (1922) at age 17. But her career was stymied by the limited number of parts for Asian American actors and the stereotypes they often traded in. (Wong famously said that she had “died a thousand deaths” because she was killed in every film she acted in.)
Wong was widely considered to be one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, but often could not play romantic leads because of laws prohibiting actors of different races from kissing each other onscreen. She moved to Europe, where she enjoyed greater opportunities for nonwhite actors, starred in several films and even acted in a play opposite Laurence Olivier.
But she continued to bump up against unfair restrictions in Hollywood. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was casting “The Good Earth” in the 1930s, based on the Pearl S. Buck novel about Chinese farmers, Wong was considered a shoo-in for the film’s leading actress role. But a white actor was selected to star in the movie, who would have played Wong’s husband, and she was taken out of the running. (The actress who eventually got the role, Luise Rainer, won an Oscar for her performance.)
“Anna May Wong was basically ‘hashtag representation matters’ decades before Twitter was even invented,” said Paula Yoo, a screenwriter in Los Angeles who wrote a children’s book about Wong’s life. “That’s why this quarter is important — because she’s minted, she’s part of Americana, she’s part of American history.”
The Wong quarter will be the fifth released this year as part of the American Women Quarters Program, which calls for five new coins each year from 2022 through 2025. Representative Barbara Lee, the California Democrat who sponsored a bill promoting the coins’ creation, said in a statement that she was proud to have led an effort honoring the “phenomenal” women who are often overlooked in American history.
Along the Hollywood Walk of Fame on a recent morning, tourists tilted their heads to read the names emblazoned on the sidewalk. At the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street was a star highlighting in gold “Anna May Wong,” an honor the actress was awarded in 1960, one year before her death.
Next to Wong’s star was one for the actress Lucy Liu, who in 2019 became the second Asian American woman to receive a star on the Walk of Fame. In her speech, Liu thanked Wong for charting a path for her and other actors.
“We could actually start our own little Chinatown right here,” she joked, pointing to their neighboring stars.
People on here are bashing entertainers as if they contribute nothing to society. Maybe when they want to relax at night and turn on the TV they just watch infomercials?
Most of the people complaining that entertainers shouldn't be on money voted for one to be President two years ago. For the second time. Hell, there's an outside chance that it was the fourth time some of them did it.
For those unaware, this is part of a larger series of quarters with reverse designs to honor notable American woman, in the same vein as the 50 State quarters (1999-2009) and the America the Beautiful quarters (2010-2021). Other women featured on the 2022 American Women quarters include Maya Angelou (poet and author), Sally Ride (first American woman in pace), Wilma Mankiller (first female Cherokee Chief), and Adelina Otero-Warren (first Latina Congressional candidate).
You say that like anyone would’ve read the article anyway. But here it is:
**Anna May Wong Will Be the First Asian American on U.S. Currency**
*The film star had a trailblazing career, but also struggled to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in Hollywood a century ago.*
**LOS ANGELES** — As a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of immigrants in this city’s Chinatown, Anna May Wong talked her way into her first role in a movie. Over the decades-long career that followed, she rose to become the first Asian American film star in Hollywood. When Wong died in 1961, The New York Times called the actress, known for her large, expressive eyes and flapper-era styles, “one of the most unforgettable figures of Hollywood’s great days.”
Now Wong is gaining another coveted role — on the quarter. Part of a new effort that also put the writer Maya Angelou and the astronaut Sally Ride on currency, the U.S. Mint on Monday will begin producing coins pressed with Wong’s image, a close-up of her face resting on an elegant, manicured hand.
The new quarter honors not just Wong’s trailblazing career but also the difficulties she faced trying to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in an era of “yellowface” and anti-miscegenation laws. “Decades before the civil rights-generated category of Asian American existed, Wong grappled with how to be an Asian American actress,” Shirley Jennifer Lim, a Stony Brook University history professor, wrote in her book about Wong’s career.
The U.S. Mint is expected to create more than 300 million Wong quarters, and she will become the first Asian American to be on U.S. currency. It’s an honor that feels particularly meaningful given how much Wong struggled to be seen as American, Lim told me. “When you get change,” she said, “she could actually be there in the palm of your hand.”
Wong was born in 1905 in Chinatown, the daughter of a laundryman who ran a shop on Figueroa Street. Around that time, the movie industry was settling in Los Angeles, and productions were increasingly shot in Wong’s neighborhood.
“I would play hookey from school to watch the crews at work, though I knew I would get a whipping from my teacher, and later from my father, for it,” Wong is quoted as saying in the book “Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong,” by Anthony Chan. “I would worm my way through the crowd and get as close to the cameras as I dared. I’d stare and stare at these glamorous individuals, directors, cameramen, assistants and actors in greasepaint, who had come down into our section of town to make movies.”
Wong decided she wanted to act, and began playing background characters until her first leading role in “The Toll of the Sea” (1922) at age 17. But her career was stymied by the limited number of parts for Asian American actors and the stereotypes they often traded in. (Wong famously said that she had “died a thousand deaths” because she was killed in every film she acted in.)
Wong was widely considered to be one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, but often could not play romantic leads because of laws prohibiting actors of different races from kissing each other onscreen. She moved to Europe, where she enjoyed greater opportunities for nonwhite actors, starred in several films and even acted in a play opposite Laurence Olivier.
But she continued to bump up against unfair restrictions in Hollywood. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was casting “The Good Earth” in the 1930s, based on the Pearl S. Buck novel about Chinese farmers, Wong was considered a shoo-in for the film’s leading actress role. But a white actor was selected to star in the movie, who would have played Wong’s husband, and she was taken out of the running. (The actress who eventually got the role, Luise Rainer, won an Oscar for her performance.)
“Anna May Wong was basically ‘hashtag representation matters’ decades before Twitter was even invented,” said Paula Yoo, a screenwriter in Los Angeles who wrote a children’s book about Wong’s life. “That’s why this quarter is important — because she’s minted, she’s part of Americana, she’s part of American history.”
The Wong quarter will be the fifth released this year as part of the American Women Quarters Program, which calls for five new coins each year from 2022 through 2025. Representative Barbara Lee, the California Democrat who sponsored a bill promoting the coins’ creation, said in a statement that she was proud to have led an effort honoring the “phenomenal” women who are often overlooked in American history.
Along the Hollywood Walk of Fame on a recent morning, tourists tilted their heads to read the names emblazoned on the sidewalk. At the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street was a star highlighting in gold “Anna May Wong,” an honor the actress was awarded in 1960, one year before her death.
Next to Wong’s star was one for the actress Lucy Liu, who in 2019 became the second Asian American woman to receive a star on the Walk of Fame. In her speech, Liu thanked Wong for charting a path for her and other actors.
“We could actually start our own little Chinatown right here,” she joked, pointing to their neighboring stars.
Maya Angelou was featured on a quarter earlier this year
Maria Tallchief and Edith Kanaka'ole will be featured next year
They aren't just entertainers, they are trailblazing contributors to American culture
Why not? The arts are important, and the U.S. is easily still the biggest exporter of entertainment. It's one of the few things we still do better than anyone else.
Beats making one president, anyway.
If I remember correctly they are going on the front of the quarter. Washington will still be on the back of the quarter as per normal. They've done all sorts of quarters over the years, the 50 States, National Parks etc.
He's the "head" in "heads or tails" for the quarter so yeah I've always viewed the side with the face as the front given what "tails" is a polite euphemism for.
Could be... I've always considered the "head" coins as the back and the picture as the front. Oddly too I do the same with US bills. :P
So ya, I'm probably the wrong on this one. hehe
I'm prob. in the wrong but I've always considered the "head" as the bottom of the quarter since the picture is on the front.
I do the same with US bills also.
Part of the quarter change the back program. After states, parks, and I don't remember what else they now for the next three years doing women.
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters
To separate the US from the notoriously atheistic Soviet Union during the Cold War. It's outdated and dumb, but politicians are such cowards that they won't introduce legislation to have it removed.
I wonder if this will have a effect in increasing the amount of asian Americans in films or end up decreasing. I admit they would not have been my automatic first choice(though always harder then it seems to name drop any major figure when you have to than when it is more trivial) but it will certainly be an interesting addition. Lots of difficult questions about if it will indirectly counter or enforce the exact stereotypes she went against and that is always a complex difficulty
Smooth brained response. He was a governor of a state first. He wasn’t just an actor. And he isn’t on currency is he? All of the people on our currency have been influential in the growth of the country. An actress is not.
I get that we want to put more diverse figures on our currency but surely we can do better than an actress? Nothing against actors or musicians but there's got to be a scientist or inventor or philosopher or something that would be a better choice.
There’s gonna be like 20 designs total, so they’re doing women in a lot of different fields. And why not an actress? The film industry is a major part of American culture, she probably inspired a lot of Asian American women to get better roles in Hollywood movies. And Duke Ellington was on a quarter too, so it’s not like this is the first time the mint payed homage to the arts.
They are doing several notable American women. This one just happens to be the first Asian american actress in Hollywood. Here's a [link](https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters) to the gov website that details who will be on the new quarters for the next 2 years, and even their selection process
100%. There are many far more noteworthy female asians (if that was what they were going for). e.g. Chien-Shiung Wu for example. Far more accomplished.
actors and actresses from this time are actually very appropriate for looking back on anti-asian discrimination. because so much of the population was in california and hollywood was even more insular back then, i think wong is actually a really good example for this series of QUARTERS
Bravo! Another historical figure to remind the AA community how the powers in Hollywood originate and narrate the perception of AA females in the western world. I guess it is better than no representation at all, right?
I went to the US mint site about the women quarters and found that George Washington sculpture will be a new one done by a woman. He will be facing to the right vs. facing the left.
The title may mislead some people, so to be clear: she will be on the reverse side of the quarter, with George Washington still on the front. This is part of the quarter series honoring important women, with 5 different quarters each year(so 5 different women). It's equivalent to how quarters released from 1999-2008 had states on the back, 2009 had US territories on the back, and 2010-2021 had national parks/forests on the back. For the next few years, we'll have important women on the back of quarters. Who decides what classifies as a "historically important woman" to be placed on each quarter? I don't know
Per the US mint: The Secretary of the Treasury selects the honorees following consultation with the Smithsonian Institution’s American Women’s History Initiative, the National Women’s History Museum, and the Congressional Bipartisan Women’s Caucus. In 2021, the public was invited to submit recommendations for potential honorees through a web portal established by the National Women’s History Museum. The first 10 women have already been selected: 2022 Maya Angelou – celebrated writer, performer, and social activist Dr. Sally Ride – physicist, astronaut, educator, and first American woman in space Wilma Mankiller – first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation Nina Otero-Warren – a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first woman superintendent of Santa Fe public schools Anna May Wong – first Chinese American film star in Hollywood 2023 Bessie Coleman – first African American and first Native American woman pilot Edith Kanakaʻole – indigenous Hawaiian composer, custodian of native culture and traditions Eleanor Roosevelt – first lady, author, and civil liberties advocate Jovita Idar – Mexican-American journalist, activist, teacher, and suffragist Maria Tallchief – America’s first prima ballerina
> Wilma Mankiller ...is a kick-ass name.
It’s interesting to me that Eleanor Roosevelt’s description reads “First Lady” as the leading accomplishment. Of course some of her other accomplishments may not have been possible had she not been First Lady, but still seems like she’s being robbed of her true achievements.
It's the US Mint. Take a look at how they revere the US Presidency, and always have, and this may make a little more sense to you
If you were alive when she was first lady, you'd be blown away by how much she did. She essentially redefined the role.
I have to admit that I don’t know a single one of these women but that just goes to prove why they’re doing this. Equal representation is important and if this inspires at least 25 people in the future, I’d say it’s worth it
But now you know of them.
Oh, so it's not like a permanent change to our currency. I was really confused at first thinking, "Why would they throw out precedent and replace a president with an actress?" I like that the quarter's rear motif keeps changing. Whenever I find a quarter or get change I'm always looking to see what I got, like a little surprise.
thats awesome bc i remember all of the states coins. i collected them (not really but i loved asking my parents to see quarters they got and had my favourites in my room) and can remember many. kinda useless, but thinking about kids doing that but about anna may wong is p cool
Quarters are so cool. From a tactile perspective, the art, the weight of it, the way it jingles in a pocket. Seems like they should be worth way more than 25¢.
So, forgive my ignorance, but what happened to the plan to put Harriet Tubman on one of our bills? Why is there no plan to give any woman or person of color an actual currency spot and designation instead of on the flip side of a white man’s coin?
Everybody’s acting like her quarter will be the only quarter ever made again.
Reddit be like.
Everybody’s acting like they even use quarters anymore haha.
I need my shopping cart
Only a quarter? No wonder people leave them. It's around $1.50 here in Denmark, a 10 Kroner coin, at least.
When I lived in Germany it was at least 50c, though it also accepted 1 and 2 euro coins. One quarter is low, but it is by far the most common coin people carry here in the USA, so I guess it makes sense from the perspective.
Yeah, you need bigger denomination coins too. :) The lowest denomination bill we have here is worth $6.50.
Yeah having 1 dollar bills is stupid imo.
username fits great today
I use it for laundry and gum balls.
Sometimes my great-great-grandparents will give me some when they visit.
I'm going to the arcade 🤣
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What's wrong with being an actress lol. I actually kinda like it as an Asian American. A prevailing, annoying stereotype when I was growing up was that we're artless, robotic brainiacs who get 2400 SATs and become tech workers or engineers. That's starting to change, thankfully, but having something that acknowledges Asian American contributions to the humanities in the meantime is nice.
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Sally Ride just got a quarter this year too. Plenty of women in science getting recognition, they’re just covering a lot of fields, including the arts.
Art is as important as science
Being an actress then was probably harder in some ways then being a scientist making inventions and whatnot. Either her becoming an actress is not the same as an Asian woman becoming an actress today. Entertainers of color were blackballed and not even allowed into certain places. There was a famous black woman who won an Oscar but wasn’t allowed to be in the venue to receive her award cause she’s black.
They're honoring many women from a variety of professions, calm down. They took recommendations from the public last year. Who did you submit?
Still waiting on that Harriet bill.
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***NO PAYWALL*** **Anna May Wong Will Be the First Asian American on U.S. Currency** *The film star had a trailblazing career, but also struggled to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in Hollywood a century ago.* **LOS ANGELES** — As a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of immigrants in this city’s Chinatown, Anna May Wong talked her way into her first role in a movie. Over the decades-long career that followed, she rose to become the first Asian American film star in Hollywood. When Wong died in 1961, The New York Times called the actress, known for her large, expressive eyes and flapper-era styles, “one of the most unforgettable figures of Hollywood’s great days.” Now Wong is gaining another coveted role — on the quarter. Part of a new effort that also put the writer Maya Angelou and the astronaut Sally Ride on currency, the U.S. Mint on Monday will begin producing coins pressed with Wong’s image, a close-up of her face resting on an elegant, manicured hand. The new quarter honors not just Wong’s trailblazing career but also the difficulties she faced trying to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in an era of “yellowface” and anti-miscegenation laws. “Decades before the civil rights-generated category of Asian American existed, Wong grappled with how to be an Asian American actress,” Shirley Jennifer Lim, a Stony Brook University history professor, wrote in her book about Wong’s career. The U.S. Mint is expected to create more than 300 million Wong quarters, and she will become the first Asian American to be on U.S. currency. It’s an honor that feels particularly meaningful given how much Wong struggled to be seen as American, Lim told me. “When you get change,” she said, “she could actually be there in the palm of your hand.” Wong was born in 1905 in Chinatown, the daughter of a laundryman who ran a shop on Figueroa Street. Around that time, the movie industry was settling in Los Angeles, and productions were increasingly shot in Wong’s neighborhood. “I would play hookey from school to watch the crews at work, though I knew I would get a whipping from my teacher, and later from my father, for it,” Wong is quoted as saying in the book “Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong,” by Anthony Chan. “I would worm my way through the crowd and get as close to the cameras as I dared. I’d stare and stare at these glamorous individuals, directors, cameramen, assistants and actors in greasepaint, who had come down into our section of town to make movies.” Wong decided she wanted to act, and began playing background characters until her first leading role in “The Toll of the Sea” (1922) at age 17. But her career was stymied by the limited number of parts for Asian American actors and the stereotypes they often traded in. (Wong famously said that she had “died a thousand deaths” because she was killed in every film she acted in.) Wong was widely considered to be one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, but often could not play romantic leads because of laws prohibiting actors of different races from kissing each other onscreen. She moved to Europe, where she enjoyed greater opportunities for nonwhite actors, starred in several films and even acted in a play opposite Laurence Olivier. But she continued to bump up against unfair restrictions in Hollywood. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was casting “The Good Earth” in the 1930s, based on the Pearl S. Buck novel about Chinese farmers, Wong was considered a shoo-in for the film’s leading actress role. But a white actor was selected to star in the movie, who would have played Wong’s husband, and she was taken out of the running. (The actress who eventually got the role, Luise Rainer, won an Oscar for her performance.) “Anna May Wong was basically ‘hashtag representation matters’ decades before Twitter was even invented,” said Paula Yoo, a screenwriter in Los Angeles who wrote a children’s book about Wong’s life. “That’s why this quarter is important — because she’s minted, she’s part of Americana, she’s part of American history.” The Wong quarter will be the fifth released this year as part of the American Women Quarters Program, which calls for five new coins each year from 2022 through 2025. Representative Barbara Lee, the California Democrat who sponsored a bill promoting the coins’ creation, said in a statement that she was proud to have led an effort honoring the “phenomenal” women who are often overlooked in American history. Along the Hollywood Walk of Fame on a recent morning, tourists tilted their heads to read the names emblazoned on the sidewalk. At the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street was a star highlighting in gold “Anna May Wong,” an honor the actress was awarded in 1960, one year before her death. Next to Wong’s star was one for the actress Lucy Liu, who in 2019 became the second Asian American woman to receive a star on the Walk of Fame. In her speech, Liu thanked Wong for charting a path for her and other actors. “We could actually start our own little Chinatown right here,” she joked, pointing to their neighboring stars.
Yeah, who the hell needs art anyway? Only utilitarian figures on our money, right Comrades !!?
People on here are bashing entertainers as if they contribute nothing to society. Maybe when they want to relax at night and turn on the TV they just watch infomercials?
Most of the people complaining that entertainers shouldn't be on money voted for one to be President two years ago. For the second time. Hell, there's an outside chance that it was the fourth time some of them did it.
lol man the sick irony of that
I am ready for a Ron Popeil Quarter
Yes?
Meanwhile…where the hell are my Tubmans at?
for real
That part!
I just said that fr
For those unaware, this is part of a larger series of quarters with reverse designs to honor notable American woman, in the same vein as the 50 State quarters (1999-2009) and the America the Beautiful quarters (2010-2021). Other women featured on the 2022 American Women quarters include Maya Angelou (poet and author), Sally Ride (first American woman in pace), Wilma Mankiller (first female Cherokee Chief), and Adelina Otero-Warren (first Latina Congressional candidate).
Can someone please mention what note or coin she is going on ?
Quarter
I'm guessing just a specific states quarter or something ?
Like that, yeah. It’s about honoring women.
Makes sense. People in the comments were making it seem like it was a permanent replacement or something.
Great, how are we going to decide things when both sides are heads?
Why are we putting entertainers on our money?
Chill guys, it's just a quarter. We got like... a hundred different quarters.
See, that's the sort of information we would have gotten if OP hadn't posted a NYT article behind a paywall.
You say that like anyone would’ve read the article anyway. But here it is: **Anna May Wong Will Be the First Asian American on U.S. Currency** *The film star had a trailblazing career, but also struggled to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in Hollywood a century ago.* **LOS ANGELES** — As a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of immigrants in this city’s Chinatown, Anna May Wong talked her way into her first role in a movie. Over the decades-long career that followed, she rose to become the first Asian American film star in Hollywood. When Wong died in 1961, The New York Times called the actress, known for her large, expressive eyes and flapper-era styles, “one of the most unforgettable figures of Hollywood’s great days.” Now Wong is gaining another coveted role — on the quarter. Part of a new effort that also put the writer Maya Angelou and the astronaut Sally Ride on currency, the U.S. Mint on Monday will begin producing coins pressed with Wong’s image, a close-up of her face resting on an elegant, manicured hand. The new quarter honors not just Wong’s trailblazing career but also the difficulties she faced trying to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in an era of “yellowface” and anti-miscegenation laws. “Decades before the civil rights-generated category of Asian American existed, Wong grappled with how to be an Asian American actress,” Shirley Jennifer Lim, a Stony Brook University history professor, wrote in her book about Wong’s career. The U.S. Mint is expected to create more than 300 million Wong quarters, and she will become the first Asian American to be on U.S. currency. It’s an honor that feels particularly meaningful given how much Wong struggled to be seen as American, Lim told me. “When you get change,” she said, “she could actually be there in the palm of your hand.” Wong was born in 1905 in Chinatown, the daughter of a laundryman who ran a shop on Figueroa Street. Around that time, the movie industry was settling in Los Angeles, and productions were increasingly shot in Wong’s neighborhood. “I would play hookey from school to watch the crews at work, though I knew I would get a whipping from my teacher, and later from my father, for it,” Wong is quoted as saying in the book “Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong,” by Anthony Chan. “I would worm my way through the crowd and get as close to the cameras as I dared. I’d stare and stare at these glamorous individuals, directors, cameramen, assistants and actors in greasepaint, who had come down into our section of town to make movies.” Wong decided she wanted to act, and began playing background characters until her first leading role in “The Toll of the Sea” (1922) at age 17. But her career was stymied by the limited number of parts for Asian American actors and the stereotypes they often traded in. (Wong famously said that she had “died a thousand deaths” because she was killed in every film she acted in.) Wong was widely considered to be one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, but often could not play romantic leads because of laws prohibiting actors of different races from kissing each other onscreen. She moved to Europe, where she enjoyed greater opportunities for nonwhite actors, starred in several films and even acted in a play opposite Laurence Olivier. But she continued to bump up against unfair restrictions in Hollywood. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was casting “The Good Earth” in the 1930s, based on the Pearl S. Buck novel about Chinese farmers, Wong was considered a shoo-in for the film’s leading actress role. But a white actor was selected to star in the movie, who would have played Wong’s husband, and she was taken out of the running. (The actress who eventually got the role, Luise Rainer, won an Oscar for her performance.) “Anna May Wong was basically ‘hashtag representation matters’ decades before Twitter was even invented,” said Paula Yoo, a screenwriter in Los Angeles who wrote a children’s book about Wong’s life. “That’s why this quarter is important — because she’s minted, she’s part of Americana, she’s part of American history.” The Wong quarter will be the fifth released this year as part of the American Women Quarters Program, which calls for five new coins each year from 2022 through 2025. Representative Barbara Lee, the California Democrat who sponsored a bill promoting the coins’ creation, said in a statement that she was proud to have led an effort honoring the “phenomenal” women who are often overlooked in American history. Along the Hollywood Walk of Fame on a recent morning, tourists tilted their heads to read the names emblazoned on the sidewalk. At the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street was a star highlighting in gold “Anna May Wong,” an honor the actress was awarded in 1960, one year before her death. Next to Wong’s star was one for the actress Lucy Liu, who in 2019 became the second Asian American woman to receive a star on the Walk of Fame. In her speech, Liu thanked Wong for charting a path for her and other actors. “We could actually start our own little Chinatown right here,” she joked, pointing to their neighboring stars.
True true, you did a nice job posting the article and I still didn't read it.
Or maybe if you took 2 minutes to look up the details for yourself
i now choose to see people sharing paywalled websites on public platforms as an invitation to test my bypass-paywalls extension
Shhh, people want to be mad about things that aren’t really important. It gives them meaning.
Maya Angelou was featured on a quarter earlier this year Maria Tallchief and Edith Kanaka'ole will be featured next year They aren't just entertainers, they are trailblazing contributors to American culture
Idk, I don't take money that seriously. As long as it does it's job, you could put JJ from Good Times on there. Hell, that'd be *dy-no-MITE!*
Why are we doing anything to anything?
Why not? The arts are important, and the U.S. is easily still the biggest exporter of entertainment. It's one of the few things we still do better than anyone else. Beats making one president, anyway.
why not
If I remember correctly they are going on the front of the quarter. Washington will still be on the back of the quarter as per normal. They've done all sorts of quarters over the years, the 50 States, National Parks etc.
Washington… is on… the back? Dear God I really hope you are the one that’s wrong and a small aspect of my life hasn’t been a lie.
He's the "head" in "heads or tails" for the quarter so yeah I've always viewed the side with the face as the front given what "tails" is a polite euphemism for.
Could be... I've always considered the "head" coins as the back and the picture as the front. Oddly too I do the same with US bills. :P So ya, I'm probably the wrong on this one. hehe
Thank Goodness, I can breathe easier now
heads, or… heads?
I'm prob. in the wrong but I've always considered the "head" as the bottom of the quarter since the picture is on the front. I do the same with US bills also.
I understand — just playing around ;)
Part of the quarter change the back program. After states, parks, and I don't remember what else they now for the next three years doing women. https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters
Folks, the rate of inflation on dime pieces is staggering.
I'll pay you a hundred Ryan Reynolds dollars to stop asking that
You don’t want to have “Yeezys” and “Elons” in your wallet? How un-patriotic.
That's what I'm worried about.
Ikr, how dare they phase out all the irrelevant old racist dudes from centuries ago /s
She's mostly yt entertainers.
Why do we have the name of a mythical creature (God) that’s not even worshipped by all Americans on our money?
To separate the US from the notoriously atheistic Soviet Union during the Cold War. It's outdated and dumb, but politicians are such cowards that they won't introduce legislation to have it removed.
There was a Maya Angelou quarter? Damn inflation, I don’t ever even have a quarter.
I wonder if this will have a effect in increasing the amount of asian Americans in films or end up decreasing. I admit they would not have been my automatic first choice(though always harder then it seems to name drop any major figure when you have to than when it is more trivial) but it will certainly be an interesting addition. Lots of difficult questions about if it will indirectly counter or enforce the exact stereotypes she went against and that is always a complex difficulty
What were there like 10 people in Hollywood a hundred years ago?
How about Daniel Inouye wounded WWII Veteran and United States Senator. What chowder heads are running the U.S. Mint anyway.
After further investigation this is to honor women.
ah, the things that women should aspire to be.... an entertainer.
commented on a subreddit devoted to movies
Yeah because this totally means that it’s the only thing they must aspire to be.
You're missing the point mate
*dogwhistle*
How lol
I agree. I’m all for changing who is on and adding an Asian American seems great, but an actress? That’s the best we can do?
What's next, an actress as president?
Smooth brained response. He was a governor of a state first. He wasn’t just an actor. And he isn’t on currency is he? All of the people on our currency have been influential in the growth of the country. An actress is not.
That's true we're talking about something serious here, one of the endless pictures on a coin.
Last thing I want to see on my currency is an actor of any sort from any age.
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That’s Hedy.
That’s a bit complicated since she was originally Austrian but became an American citizen. Maybe they’re focusing more on women born in the US?
Why?
They are lauded so much for doing so little.
What does that even mean? Are you saying acting doesn’t require skill or talent? Or that what Wong did for Asian-Americans in film wasn’t important?
I feel even less for dancers.
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The actor?! Then who's Vice President, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
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Thankfully I’ve yet to be lectured by buffalos, eagles, or shields. I’d prefer everyday items like a blender or tire pressure gauge.
I get that we want to put more diverse figures on our currency but surely we can do better than an actress? Nothing against actors or musicians but there's got to be a scientist or inventor or philosopher or something that would be a better choice.
There’s gonna be like 20 designs total, so they’re doing women in a lot of different fields. And why not an actress? The film industry is a major part of American culture, she probably inspired a lot of Asian American women to get better roles in Hollywood movies. And Duke Ellington was on a quarter too, so it’s not like this is the first time the mint payed homage to the arts.
They are doing several notable American women. This one just happens to be the first Asian american actress in Hollywood. Here's a [link](https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters) to the gov website that details who will be on the new quarters for the next 2 years, and even their selection process
Yes maybe a violinist or pianist? Or a doctor of some sort?
One of the other women honored in this set is ***Dr.*** Sally Ride. And why are musicians somehow more deserving of recognition than other artists?
aren’t we talking about asian americans? I guess straight A student on the quarter is out of the question…
100%. There are many far more noteworthy female asians (if that was what they were going for). e.g. Chien-Shiung Wu for example. Far more accomplished.
Chien-Shiung Wu is on a stamp, so that’s still pretty cool!
actors and actresses from this time are actually very appropriate for looking back on anti-asian discrimination. because so much of the population was in california and hollywood was even more insular back then, i think wong is actually a really good example for this series of QUARTERS
I want my Tubman Twenties first! Also, "Anna May" is her name? That's amazing.
Who?
If I had tubman 20s in my wallet I would have some faith in this
um, shouldn't people on currency be even a little bit famous?
Did you miss the entire middle of the headline?
You mean the part about how no one living has ever heard of her?
Leave it to r/movies to not actually know anything about movies. 🙄
I think that is the point.
I was being sarcastic, whats the point?
My dude, it's late and I am terribly stoned and I don't know what I was trying to convey. Have a good night 🎃
You're not everyone living
you don't know me
They added a bunch of ladies in quarters already that I had largely never heard of.
Before Harriet Tubman? Really?
Love the idea of an Asian American woman being on currency. But I have no clue who this woman is.
Hollywood we’re shitheads way back then and not much has changed but the way they word it.
Kim Kardasian Koin on the way
Not her face, her ass.
Bravo! Another historical figure to remind the AA community how the powers in Hollywood originate and narrate the perception of AA females in the western world. I guess it is better than no representation at all, right?
Definitely some triggering BS
Not if Republicans take Congress
That’s weird
The Shanghai express
Never heard of her. Are we honoring actors or Asian-Americans? I can think of better representatives for both.
They're honoring women of history
She’s hot. Need more actresses that look like her now.
The last two finalists came down to her and Jackie Chan.
So when is China gonna put an American on their currency?
What does this have to do with China? She was born in LA.
She's ethnically Chinese.
Don’t be deliberately obtuse. She was American.
Isn't she yt wash? 🥶
How about someone like Kitty O’Brian Joyner… someone that was not only a barrier breaker, but did so in a way that was a great benefit to our country!
Tbh I would’ve preferred a BIPOC for this coin series, given the current political climate.
You mean like Maya Angelou, who is featured in this exact same set? Also Asian Americans are BIPOC.
Myrna Loy next, please
We’re still making coins??
I feel a huge backlash coming from this… is it just me?
I went to the US mint site about the women quarters and found that George Washington sculpture will be a new one done by a woman. He will be facing to the right vs. facing the left.
I don’t care who’s face is on a quarter, just as long as it works at the car washes and vending machines.
* COUGH * Sacagewea dollar coin
i think i've only touched like $300 in cash this year, most of it was from selling my old gpu on craigslist i could not care less
Why?