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  Re: Melting Pot or Multiculturalism? Mediating Ethnicity in Baseball

  Ethnicity/Race/Nationality

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  Elizabeth Rawitsch University of East Anglia

  Tuesday, October 25, 2011 — 5:29 pm

  step. I’m curious to see how this discussion of race/ethinicity/nationality develops over the coming ...
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  Re: “I is Unruffable”: Rereading African American Sports Performances as Unique Expressions of Dissent

  The History of Discrimination in Baseball

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  Elizabeth Rawitsch University of East Anglia

  Wednesday, October 26, 2011 — 9:55 pm

  history and Asian-specific (or even Latino-specific) discrimination is precisely what makes celebrating ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “I is Unruffable”: Rereading African American Sports Performances as Unique Expressions of Dissent

  The "Yellow Color Line"

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  Bill Staples, Jr. Nisei Baseball Research Project

  Sunday, October 30, 2011 — 6:40 am

  Baseball" and her comment "I wonder if that lack of bitter history and Asian-specific (or even ... acceptable?" A color line was drawn against Asian players. The first attempt of a major league team to sign ...
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  Re: Melting Pot or Multiculturalism? Mediating Ethnicity in Baseball

  Racism and Diversity in the MLB

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  Cynthia Fuchs George Mason University

  Sunday, October 30, 2011 — 3:37 pm

  A's) or Suzuki (Mariners), made with much fanfare, helped to build an "Asian market" for the ...
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  Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding?

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  Andrew Daglas ChicagoNow.com

  November 03, 2011

  1 comment

  Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding? The Sopranos Sunday TV Mad Men HBO AMC Curator's Note In an era often heralded as a golden age of television, few networks have made the notion of “quality TV” as central to its b ...
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  "What You Mean We?": Video-Cloning Laurie Anderson

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  Kimberly Ramirez LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York

  November 08, 2011

  3 comments

  "What You Mean We?": Video-Cloning Laurie Anderson special effects performance art Laurie Anderson Curator's Note For four decades, Laurie Anderson's  multimedia performances have utilized special effects to dissolve boundaries between ...
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  Digital Materialism: "300" Bodies in Virtual Space

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  Drew Ayers Eastern Washington University

  November 09, 2011

  4 comments

  Digital Materialism: "300" Bodies in Virtual Space special effects materialism digital aesthetics Curator's Note Two parallel discourses emerged in the popular press coverage of Zach Snyder’s 2006 film adaptation of Frank Miller and Lynn Va ...
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  Re: Digital Materialism: "300" Bodies in Virtual Space

  Bodies Drawn, Filmed, Painted, Rendered

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  Bob Rehak Swarthmore College

  Wednesday, November 9, 2011 — 5:43 pm

  books to cinematic life with as much fidelity to their source material as possible. Some, like The Polar ...
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  Avatar Comes Home: 3D and the Death of DVD

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  Chuck Tryon Fayetteville State University

  November 10, 2011

  6 comments

  Avatar Comes Home: 3D and the Death of DVD television special effects panasonic james cameron avatar 3D Curator's Note  When James Cameron's 3D space epic, Avatar, was first being promoted, the movie was promoted as something that audiences had ...
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  Re: Avatar Comes Home: 3D and the Death of DVD

  From a practical standpoint...

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  Marc Ruppel National Endowment for the Humanities

  Thursday, November 10, 2011 — 2:37 pm

  the technology that makes it seemingly possible at home. ...

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