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  From Lovebot to War Bride: Race, Family and Citizenship in Battlestar Galactica

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  LeiLani Nishime Sonoma State University

  May 02, 2008

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  Asian-American representation Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica Curator's Note In the series, Battlestar ... increasingly vocal civil rights movement. This new image transformed Asians in the public imagination from male ... seen as racialized anger (“You hate me for what I am. You hate me for where I’m from.”) What, too, are ...
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  The Mouth Wants What It Wants

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  Dana Heller Old Dominion University

  June 22, 2007

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  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

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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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  (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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  Britz: Muslims and Postmodern Media after 9/11

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  Ashwani Sharma University of East London

  April 16, 2008

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  representation September 11 2001 South Asian terrorism Curator's Note The clip is the trailer for the ...
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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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  Can Catwoman Challenge Patriarchy?

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  Michael Lecker George Mason University

  September 28, 2007

  Batman driven narrative? What ideologies is Selina questioning with such quotes as “Tell me I’m not in ...
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  Who’s Alright?: The Politics of “Queerspawn” Representation in "The Kids Are Alright"

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  June 18, 2014

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  a minority group, I’m ambivalent about the way media representations frame me, so it’s not that surprising ...
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  'Faceshopping' (2018) with Sophie Xeon/SOPHIE

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  Joe Jackson SOAS University of London

  May 21, 2019

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  “I’m real when I shop my face” embrace unsavoury aspects of self-love which are deemed corrosive ...
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  “Jumping Your Bones Was Extremely Atypical For Me”

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  April 21, 2008

  4 comments

  possibility for out producers in the beginnings of the post-network era. While acknowledging that gay people ... references, the trajectories that Brothers and Sisters sets its gay characters on appear possible because of ...

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