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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

  17 comments

  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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  The Mouth Wants What It Wants

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  June 22, 2007

  1 comment

  American diet-- suggests that it might be possible to reclaim a liberated, hyper-masculine subjectivity ... in a revolt against the castrating implications of suburban mini vans, Asian salads (the new quiche), ... his underwear, and tosses them into a burning trash canister). Taken collectively, I’m interested in ...
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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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  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

  18 comments

  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K. South Asian ...
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  It Rhymes with Smashsmortion

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  Craig O. Stewart Old Dominion University

  June 08, 2007

  4 comments

  ill-considered one-night stand. The film barely considers any possibilities for Allison other than having the ... other respects (but perhaps somewhat overrated). So, I’m interested to hear from others--did anyone else ...
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  Bant Singh can still sing

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  Jyotsna Kapur Southern Illinois University

  February 02, 2007

  15 comments

  video through a South-Asian list-serve and Bant Singh’s songs, firm gaze, and fearless gestures have ...
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  “But Does He Know How to Wind You Up?” Gwen Stefani Samples The Sound of Music

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  Jane Park University of Oklahoma

  February 19, 2007

  1 comment

  performance race gender music video intertextuality sampling Orientalism Asian Curator's Note A student ...
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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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  Previously on Buffy

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  Alan McKee Queensland University of Technology

  February 23, 2007

  4 comments

  a solipsistic ‘anything goes’ attitude. I’m not telling people that this is the correct interpretation of this ... text; I’m asking if anybody thinks the same way, or finds this a useful approach. ...
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  The Human Rights of Cylons “as a Race”

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  Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 12, 2007

  3 comments

  the body of an Asian woman. Is torture of white humans by white Cylons (and vice-versa) used to ...

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