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  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

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  Greg Oguss University of Southern California

  March 20, 2008

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  a commentary on the “Black is Beautiful” era, which dates back to James Brown’s 1968 hit “Say It Loud (I’m ... Black and I’m Proud),” a song that became the soundtrack to the following decade, featuring ...
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  “Exploited in a very ugly way”: Iraq war refugees in Syria

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  Cynthia Fuchs George Mason University

  January 21, 2008

  slickness. Two, according to keyword-association, the clip is listed alongside other usual YouTube fare, ...
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  Voting for Super Bullshit on Super Tuesday

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  February 05, 2008

  button is still on. Here, though, and especially on a day such as today, I’m interested in how this clip ...
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  From Lovebot to War Bride: Race, Family and Citizenship in Battlestar Galactica

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  LeiLani Nishime Sonoma State University

  May 02, 2008

  4 comments

  seen as racialized anger (“You hate me for what I am. You hate me for where I’m from.”) What, too, are ...
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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

  5 comments

  gender focus, but I’m willing to bet it’s not an accidental one.) ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

  1 comment

  cultural values and norms. I think this last benefit in particular is what I’m getting from telling you how ...
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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

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  particular fosters an opening of reading possibilities, I want to encourage more possibilities than camp ... Burgundy histories?- that deploy camp to new advantage. Or might such projects conflict with a possible ...
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  “What Steven Wants: Gestural Computing, Digital Manual Labor, and the Boom! Moment”

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  March 11, 2008

  finger, and scroll,” and “You can see what I’m doing with my finger” augments the visual and tactile ...
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  “She Might Like to be a Veterinarian”: Parents, Parent Companies, and the Princess Movement

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  Caryn Murphy University of Wisconsin, Madison

  May 06, 2008

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  “She Might Like to be a Veterinarian”: Parents, Parent Companies, and the Princess Movement world building transmedia toys marketing Good Morning America gender Disney children Curator's Note When I caught this segment on Good Morning America last sp ...
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  “Jumping Your Bones Was Extremely Atypical For Me”

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  April 21, 2008

  4 comments

  possibility for out producers in the beginnings of the post-network era. While acknowledging that gay people ... references, the trajectories that Brothers and Sisters sets its gay characters on appear possible because of ...

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