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  Crafting Croft: Avatars, Identity, Representation

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  Linzi Juliano University of California, Los Angeles

  March 14, 2013

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  center around “realness”; in fact, the game begins with her preparing to star in a reality TV show. Since ...
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  Friday Night Whites — Nighttime Drama Don’t Respect My Conway Twitty

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  March 23, 2007

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  jobs in strip clubs and burger joints. The sitcom Earl appears—at least to me—to embrace those I often ...
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  (Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday”

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  Jane Park University of Oklahoma

  April 29, 2008

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  I thought I'd post it here to perhaps begin complicating what we mean by "Asian American" ...
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  The HBO Show They Didn’t Get to Make: Comedy Central’s South Side

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  djones Georgia State University

  February 24, 2020

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  a platform that allows for uncensored content—in language at least—Comedy Central demonstrates its desire to ...
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  SíTV and the emergence of English-language Latino television networks

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  Juan Pinon New York University

  November 15, 2007

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  SíTV and the emergence of English-language Latino television networks globalization race Latinos representation cable language political economy SiTV LATV Yo Voy MTr3s Mun2 Jeff Valdez Brother Garcia bilingualism The Rub Curator's Note English-speaki ...
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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

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  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 ...