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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

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  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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  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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  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

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  (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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  Crafting Croft: Avatars, Identity, Representation

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  Linzi Juliano University of California, Los Angeles

  March 14, 2013

  1 comment

  muscular, mustachioed, reptilian, or an Asian woman (as in the Saints Row series), these options are ...
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  Re-visioning Arab Identity in US Popular Culture

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  Karin Wilkins University of Texas at Austin

  April 25, 2007

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  Re-visioning Arab Identity in US Popular Culture satire race transcoding representation stereotyping Planet of the Arabs mocumentary Arabs Curator's Note The edited clips in this brief video were constructed by Jacqueline Salloum to complement Jack S ...