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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

  Asian-American representation Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica Curator's Note In the series, Battlestar ... increasingly vocal civil rights movement. This new image transformed Asians in the public imagination from male ... 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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  “Barack OBollywood”: Afro-Asian Connections on the Viral Video Trail

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  Shalini Shankar Northwestern University

  April 30, 2008

  6 comments

  “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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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

  10 comments

  Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, ... is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman who has a white boyfriend, a steady job with a large ... organization, and is on a professional fast track. This is all-too-familiar figure in Asian American popular ...
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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

  6 comments

  (Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday” globalization race hip hop Asian ... consumerism, media "addiction," and detournement- but never on Asian American identity or culture. So ... I thought I'd post it here to perhaps begin complicating what we mean by "Asian American" ...
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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

  9 comments

  Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy America’s Best Dance ... Crew Asian American dance genre JabbaWockeeZ Korean American masks MTV music PLANET B-BOY race the body ... you think when you put together Asian Americans and comedy?... Naw. Asians and dance? “What the h***?” ...
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  The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network"

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  January 17, 2011

  7 comments

  The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social ... Network" women The Social Network race Productions of Digital Cultures Asian Curator's Note David ... full of Asian women, a fact that has been noted by Roger Ebert, one of the few film critics who can be ...
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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

  11 comments

  gender South Asian Asian-American film trailer transcoding Curator's Note “Speaking American: ... also was popular with a wider audience including Asian Americans. The sequel where Harold and Kumar go ... American cultural expression in racialized Asian American bodies. Even if you do not identify with Harold ...
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  IMR Retrospective on Race

  February 18, 2019 to February 22, 2019

  Jazmine R. Hudson Georgia State University

  Tanya D. Zuk, Ph.D. Georgia State University
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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 Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  September 28, 2009

  7 comments

  stories race rape Orientalism Asian racism violence zombie horde Taken Resident Evil, Yellow Peril Arab ... represented “the Oriental” as a sexual threat to White women and White racial purity.  Asian, Arab, and Muslim ...

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