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  Re: The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos

  Here is an irony. While

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  Friday, June 29, 2007 — 10:34 am

  onto these episodes as long as possible? ...
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  Re: Feminist Sopranos

  And yet after Tony's

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  Saturday, June 30, 2007 — 11:46 am

  Another expression of cold-bloodedness that maybe finds its roots in a possible 'feminisation' ...
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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

  10 comments

  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica stereotyping Sci-fi representation race digital Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman ...
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  A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  July 10, 2007

  4 comments

  A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG narrative race Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica citizenship African American captivity Curator's Note Scarred from the civil war on New Caprica, Col. Tigh has effectively abandoned his position as Executive Off ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  Avi, I think you may be on

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  Tuesday, July 10, 2007 — 12:45 pm

  might want to read scene as more meta-commentary on the range of possible subject positions for Asian ...
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  Re: A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG

  As with my response to the

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  Tuesday, July 10, 2007 — 2:44 pm

  As with my response to the post on Sharon's Asianess, I'd want to provide a couple of ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  I'm so excited to see a post

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  Tuesday, July 10, 2007 — 8:35 pm

  I'm so excited to see a post about this-- BSG raises particularly compelling questions about race and representation. I've written: I’d argue that BSG’s whole approach to race is hybrid: it complexifies racial categories by refusing bad scifi’s ...
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  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica

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  Brander Rasmussen Birgit University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 11, 2007

  5 comments

  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica race Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica miscegenation otherness diversity Curator's Note In this moment of crisis, the camera pans over the faces of many key characters revealing a crew that includes men and women of many ra ...
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  Re: Multiracial Battlestar Galactica

  Related to your point, Lisa,

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Wednesday, July 11, 2007 — 11:04 pm

  a different note, is it possible to argue that this multiracial dilemma Brander sums up here is somewhat ...
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  The Human Rights of Cylons “as a Race”

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 12, 2007

  3 comments

  The Human Rights of Cylons “as a Race” race Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica human rights torture Curator's Note BSG often simplistically asks whether the Cylons have rights (every time a human says “she's just a machine!” the flattered audience know ...

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