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  Re: Melting Pot or Multiculturalism? Mediating Ethnicity in Baseball

  Diversity in Baseball

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  Annie Dell'Aria The Graduate Center, CUNY

  Tuesday, October 25, 2011 — 3:23 pm

  and Asia.  When players like Chien-Ming Wang (Taiwan) or Ichiro Suzuko (Japan) play, their national ...
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  Re: Is Bollywood Still Producing Musicals? (Has It Ever?)

  RE: Bollywood, the West, and cultural exchange

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  Nilanjana Bhattacharjya Arizona State University

  Sunday, June 17, 2012 — 8:08 pm

  Asia. In many recent films, I've noticed what I believe to be a transition from the conventional ...
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  Good Hair: About Us but not For Us

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  Tokumbo Bodunde Manhattan College, William Paterson University

  October 29, 2009

  1 comment

  dollar global industry in which men, whether they are in the U.S. or Asia, control production, ... distribution, and ultimately are the major profiteers of black female hair products.   Female workers in Asia ...
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  The Cinema World, made of what? or made of who?

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  Jean-Michel Frodon Sciences Po Paris

  January 27, 2011

  1 comment

  a day during 2 weeks: to draw a possible map of "the world aoteur cinema, in a way that associates ...
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  Behind the Laughter Curtain: Image(in)ing Later Life Marriage through Comedy

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  Melissa Aleman James Madison University, School of Communication Studies

  March 25, 2009

  4 comments

  such representations to render possible images as obscene, such as older adult sexuality, infidelity, ... and talk about those stories that we imagine the unseen and unspoken possibility for later life ... a narrative space for viewers to imagine, not only a host of possible punch lines, but also the relationship ...
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  Digital Labor in Participatory Television

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  Adam Fish Lancaster University, Sociology

  May 05, 2011

  6 comments

  well as in the divided cities in Belfast and Jerusalem and revolutions in central Asia. This ...
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  Re: Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

  Keeping Our Bases--and Asses--Covered

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 — 1:30 am

  masculinity advertisement  (for beer, appropriately), and on the theme of this week’s IMR, I’m left wondering: ... in the implausibility of its escape fantasy. But at the same time, I’m not quite sure how body wash ... and a shiny new phallus sportscar could possibly be enough compensation for the trials and ...
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  Hurry Up and Wait

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  Joshua Gleich University of Texas-Austin

  August 16, 2016

  collection, I’m moving step by step from an idea to an actual manuscript. The first monograph seems to move in ... anyone thought you should have written the manuscript in the first place. I sometimes feel like I’m back ... the proposal as soon as possible to get the wheels in motion. The book proposal is out to a few ...
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  Is blocking a preemptive strategy?

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  Jacqueline Vickery University of North Texas

  September 01, 2016

  before she blocks them? Is it possible she had already been the target of harassment and she was tired of ... and which were misogynistic trolls? Because that sounds like a lot of time and work. I’m all for ... to block those who didn’t. I’m using Schumer as a controversial conversation starter, but it seems no ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  Appropriate political optics

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  Thursday, August 23, 2012 — 6:53 am

  Thank you for your response Jonathan. I don’t want to come off as flippant but I’m attempting to ... make my argument in the space allowed. I also want to point out I think I’m doing more of a discourse ... into a performance, divorcing it from its power and possibility. All protests attempt to make visible ...

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