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  Rethinking the Hyphenated Identity in U.S Politics: The Case of Jungle Asians VS Fancy Asians

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  Harifa Siregar Georgia State University

  March 02, 2020

  Rethinking the Hyphenated Identity in U.S Politics: The Case of Jungle Asians VS Fancy Asians ... citizenship Asian-American stereotyping Curator's Note We are facing with the common knowledge on how the ... own group. One intriguing case is the term of Jungle Asians versus Fancy Asians that have been ...
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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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  Crafting Croft: Avatars, Identity, Representation

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  Linzi Juliano University of California, Los Angeles

  March 14, 2013

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  muscular, mustachioed, reptilian, or an Asian woman (as in the Saints Row series), these options are ...
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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

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  gender focus, but I’m willing to bet it’s not an accidental one.) ...
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  “Where Does a Girl Have to Go to Find a Pool Table: Gender Performance, Leisure, and The L Word in Second Life”

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  April 22, 2008

  4 comments

  a butch to do? I’m not wholly sure what to make of this. This fantasy meeting place seems to be solely ...
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  Of Niggas and Citizens: Mobilizing Strategies on The Boondocks and the Rhetoric of Blame

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  July 27, 2007

  3 comments

  itself. One possible explanation follows Kobena Mercer's argument that people of color experience ...
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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 ...
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  The Last Lion King of Scotland

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  Davis Jung Brown University

  April 12, 2007

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  The Last Lion King of Scotland Africa representation stereotyping mashup praxis Lion King Last King of Scotland Must Love Jaws Ten Things I Hate About Commandments deconstruction Curator's Note With the age of the internet and such websites as YouTub ...