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“Jumping Your Bones Was Extremely Atypical For Me”

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Ben Aslinger Bentley University

April 21, 2008

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possibility for out producers in the beginnings of the post-network era. While acknowledging that gay people ...

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Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema

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Sreya Mitra University of Wisconsin, Madison

April 24, 2008

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Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema South Asian sexuality queerness Page 3 masculinity Life in a…Metro Bollywood Curator's Note Male homoeroticism in yaari (colloquial Hindi for ...

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“Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar”

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Shilpa Dave Brandeis University

April 28, 2008

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“Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar” satire race gender South Asian Asian-American film trailer transcoding Curator's Note “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and ...

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Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy

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L.S. Kim University of California, Santa Cruz

April 29, 2008

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dance. We feel the primal rhythm of a beat and begin to bounce our head almost by instinct; the deep ...

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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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Re: “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar”

Hi Jane, I was also

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Shilpa Dave Brandeis University

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 — 4:32 pm

early criticism of homeland security procedures that you see in the beginning of the film (and in the ...

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Re: Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy

Hello, Jane and thank you

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L.S. Kim University of California, Santa Cruz

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 — 6:18 pm

of an Asian hippie is an oxymoron (for some, at least ~ remember Victor Wong who was featured in ...

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“Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail

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Shalini Shankar Northwestern University

April 30, 2008

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“Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail Youtube viral video United States race President politics masculinity elections CamPain 2008 Bollywood Asian American Curator's Note In December 2007, 22 year old white American vir ...

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Re: (Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday”