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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 05, 2007

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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV youth culture transnational South Asian promo MTV India ... not South Asians but of South Asia. People of South Asian origin in the United States commonly refer ... one's identity as South Asian but also as being "outside South Asia". As the young man reminds ...
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  Hmong Bollywood

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  Jigna Desai University of Minnesota

  April 18, 2008

  5 comments

  Hmong Bollywood diaspora South Asian Bollywood Hmong immigration adaptation dubbing ... transnationalism Curator's Note Is it possible to be a diaspora without a “homeland” cinema or media? What ... burdens,” and like other Asian Americans as “perpetually foreign.” As Louisa Schein has written, far from ...
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  British Bhangra Album Sleeves as Artwork

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  Rajinder Dudrah University of Manchester (UK)

  April 16, 2008

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  British Bhangra Album Sleeves as Artwork South Asian diaspora Desi DNA Desi Britain bhangra BBC ... Brit-Asians and wider culture vultures. In its earlier series Desi DNA was aired at an accessible 7-8pm slot ... a direct media intervention marking South Asians as British and Asian, with Desi DNA representing late ...
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  Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 14, 2008

  8 comments

  Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace globalization diaspora South Asian ... transnationalism Asian-American cable original programming India distribution Simply Desi ImaginAsian TV ... Note The featured video clip is from 2007 when Simply Desi, a 3 and ½ hour block of South Asian ...
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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  March 25, 2011

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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced television South Asians South ... Asian racial performance Outsourced India comedy Asian Americans Accent Curator's Note In the 2010 ... South Asian/American actors and South Asian American writers. According to writer Geethika Lizardi, the ...
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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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  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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  Kumaari

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  Arvind Rajagopal New York University

  February 08, 2007

  2 comments

  Kumaari South Asian Bollywood transnationalism Tamil Curator's Note A Dutch tulip field is ...
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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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  Britz: Muslims and Postmodern Media after 9/11

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  Ashwani Sharma University of East London

  April 16, 2008

  5 comments

  representation September 11 2001 South Asian terrorism Curator's Note The clip is the trailer for the ...