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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K.

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  Shanti Kumar University of Texas at Austin

  April 17, 2007

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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K. South 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

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  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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  Whiteness and Transcultural Sketch Comedy

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  Walter Metz Montana State University

  March 07, 2007

  Captain "Kork" (Christian Tramitz) orders Mr. Sulu (portrayed as an over-the-top Asian ...
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  'Mohr' No More? Advertising the Other in German-Speaking Europe

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  Susanne Hamscha Free University Berlin

  October 28, 2009

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  Austrian customers, namely “Mohr im Hemd” ice cream. “Mohr im Hemd,” a warm chocolate cake served with ... colonialism and slavery. But “Mohr im Hemd,” be it as ice cream or in its usual cake form, is not the only ...
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  Reproductive Racism?

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  Amber Johnson Prairie View A&M University

  August 22, 2011

  I’m not convinced. Life is impossible without reproductive justice. Reproductive justice is impossible ...
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  To Document or Intervene?

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  Ben Brucato Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  March 05, 2015

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  tips on how to use a cell phone to produce the best possible footage of an incident. With ... to prepare oneself to document—as clearly as possible—a police-civilian encounter, where does that ...
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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games

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  Kishonna Gray Eastern Kentucky University

  November 12, 2014

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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games whiteness video games racism blackness Curator's Note The purpose of this discussion is to examine how the normalization of Whiteness and masculinity within video games leads ...