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  Re: (Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday”

  Hi everyone, Thanks for the

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  Thursday, May 1, 2008 — 5:45 am

  more Asian Americans get behind the mike, camera, and computer screens. Personally, I think ... move and/or indication of changes afoot (though there's always of course the possibility of ... color like Spike Lee or Wayne Wang, who started off by specifically representing Black and Asian ...
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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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  Hmong Bollywood

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  Jigna Desai University of Minnesota

  April 18, 2008

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  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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  Lucid Dream: Randall Okita's THE LOCKPICKER and Asian American Narrative Films

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  Valerie Soe San Francisco State University

  May 23, 2017

  Lucid Dream: Randall Okita's THE LOCKPICKER and Asian American Narrative Films Valerie Soe ... The Lockpicker Randall Okita narrative film Independent Filmmaking Asian American Media Curator's ... (http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/22/movies/a-film-festival-focuses-on-gener-asian-x.html), following an uptick that year in narrative feature films by Asian Americans. Since that time ...
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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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  (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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  Free and Freer: WikiLeaks and ViCKi LEEKX

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  Ivan Kreilkamp Indiana University

  February 11, 2011

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  culture. The 36-minute mix begins with a South Asian woman’s voice narrating lines from a Julian Assange ... swimming in an insurgent stream of privacy-unprotected data. “I’m not talking about getting it for free,” ... violent rounding-up of light-skinned red-heads into prison camps; “I’m talking about making it freer.” ...
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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

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  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

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  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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  Re: “She Might Like to be a Veterinarian”: Parents, Parent Companies, and the Princess Movement

  Hi Caryn, I definitely

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Tuesday, May 6, 2008 — 11:07 pm

  incredible possibilities opened up by having these different princesses occupy the same universe that might ... in turn promote a diversity of playful experiences and story possibilities, the discursive ... Pocahontas and Mulan are meant to be understood (and clearly marked) as Native American and Asian variations ...

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