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  The Mouth Wants What It Wants

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  June 22, 2007

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  American diet-- suggests that it might be possible to reclaim a liberated, hyper-masculine subjectivity ... in a revolt against the castrating implications of suburban mini vans, Asian salads (the new quiche), ... his underwear, and tosses them into a burning trash canister). Taken collectively, I’m interested 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 ... compliment and disparage. Some question Obama’s authenticity: “But he is not asian! he has no asian blood in ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  masculinities made possible by contemporary cable’s hyper-competitive targeting of young male audiences. This ... personality as a business-makeover host rubs would-be clients the wrong way. He gathers female, black, Asian ...
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  The World in Action

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  Mark Gallagher University of Nottingham

  August 11, 2010

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  mode’s mission of global saturation. To grow its East Asian markets, Hollywood regularly casts Asian or ... Asian-American actors: Jackie Chan in The Karate Kid (coproduced by the China Film Group and with the more ...
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  What I learned by taking 30 years of Keanu Reeves movies seriously

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  Charisse L'Pree Syracuse University

  August 12, 2019

  recent rom-com celebration of Asian American identity, Always Be My Maybe (2019), for which writer Ali ... Wong noted, “[Keanu] was flattered that we remembered he was Asian American” (2019). https ...
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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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  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

  2 comments

  Hindi cinema South Asian sexuality queerness Page 3 masculinity Life in a…Metro Bollywood Curator's ...
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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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  One Man Army: Ultimate Warfighters and Interchangeable Tough Guys

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  Charity Fox University of Baltimore

  September 28, 2011

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  universe (I’m looking at you, Real Housewives) – there is a tone of respectful collegiality infusing the ...
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  The Queer Geek Adonis

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  Matthew french Old Dominion University

  September 26, 2013

  2 comments

  distinctions between the queer geek body as normative over other possibilities.  This is a shift in discourse, ... defends his inferred asexuality in one clip. As a possible asexual queer representation, Sheldon proves ...

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