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  Re: Feminist Sopranos

  And yet after Tony's

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  Saturday, June 30, 2007 — 11:46 am

  Another expression of cold-bloodedness that maybe finds its roots in a possible 'feminisation' ...
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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

  10 comments

  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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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  When I first viewed this

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 2:52 pm

  and it does use the stereotyped current media image of Asian women to bolster this identification. ... Another aspect of the Asian stereotype is that of the "model minority"--Asians are supposed to ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  Lisa's reading of the Sharon

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 3:13 pm

  of Asian women is useful and compelling. I must say that until now this was not a foregrounded ... both Asian and female may be enabling even newer riffs? Do the contemporary identity markers of the ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  While I agree that the

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 3:31 pm

  While I agree that the series does engage stereotypical representations of Asian women in order to ... interesting critique of the Asian American experience of always "having just arrived" no matter how ... friends and co-workers rather than simply some "inscrutable Asianness" actually work as ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  This is a really interesting

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  Brander Rasmussen Birgit University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 4:29 pm

  "Asian-ness" functions as well? Making her both assimilable (good model-minority) and always different? ... Obviously here, the "asian-ness" is entirely phenotypical, there is no asian culture element as ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  I think Lisa's last question

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Monday, July 9, 2007 — 5:12 pm

  being female, “Asian,” and, um, a Cylon, she's NOT an alien threat. I didn't find this ...
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  A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  July 10, 2007

  4 comments

  A New Reconstruction Narrative: Race and BSG narrative race Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica citizenship African American captivity Curator's Note Scarred from the civil war on New Caprica, Col. Tigh has effectively abandoned his position as Executive Off ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  Avi, I think you may be on

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  Ellen Rigsby Saint Mary’s College of California

  Tuesday, July 10, 2007 — 12:45 pm

  might want to read scene as more meta-commentary on the range of possible subject positions for Asian ... works to comment on the liminal space Asian Americans occupy. I haven't thought about this enough, ...
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  Re: Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

  I'm so excited to see a post

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  Tuesday, July 10, 2007 — 8:35 pm

  violence, the greatest indeterminacy and uncertainty about her own identity, is played by an Asian ... -American actress. In North America, Asians are the immigrant group with the most ambiguous and fluid status, always ...

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