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  Asian-American media-themed week

  April 28, 2008 to May 02, 2008
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  “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar”

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  Shilpa Dave Brandeis University

  April 28, 2008

  11 comments

  gender South Asian Asian-American film trailer transcoding Curator's Note “Speaking American: ... also was popular with a wider audience including Asian Americans. The sequel where Harold and Kumar go ... American cultural expression in racialized Asian American bodies. Even if you do not identify with Harold ...
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  Re: “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar”

  Hi Shipa- This is a great

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  Shalini Shankar Northwestern University

  Monday, April 28, 2008 — 6:13 pm

  Hi Shipa- This is a great clip to get us thinking about Asian American media representations. ... masculinity are defined, and how East Asians and South Asians remain on the periphery of these norms in ...
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  Re: “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar”

  Hi Michael, I don't think

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  Shilpa Dave Brandeis University

  Monday, April 28, 2008 — 6:46 pm

  identification. In fact what may make it so funny is "seeing" Asian guys doing redneck performance. Also ...
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  Re: “Speaking American: Cultural Expressions of Race and Nationality in Harold and Kumar”

  hi shilpa, great clip and

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  Tuesday, April 29, 2008 — 3:41 am

  my question would be: in what ways does this film make south and east asian american identity ...
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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

  9 comments

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

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  Jane Park University of Oklahoma

  April 29, 2008

  6 comments

  (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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  Re: Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy

  Hi L.S., What a fascinating

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  Tuesday, April 29, 2008 — 4:56 pm

  Drum Song. Obviously very different- but I guess the parallel for me is the Asian body seamlessly ... Which brings up all those stereotypes of East Asians as imitators, inauthentic, etc. But I suspect this ... black music cultures- jazz, hip hop) or does that binary not hold in this instance? Asian dancers with ...
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  Re: Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy

  Hello, Jane and thank you

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  L.S. Kim University of California, Santa Cruz

  Tuesday, April 29, 2008 — 6:18 pm

  perfect to bring up here. Right, it is somehow astounding to see usually petite and subdued Asian ... the notion of the "foreign body" pervades one's ability to comprehend that these Asian ... of an Asian hippie is an oxymoron (for some, at least ~ remember Victor Wong who was featured in ...
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  Re: Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy

  Shilpa, Thank you for your

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  L.S. Kim University of California, Santa Cruz

  Tuesday, April 29, 2008 — 6:48 pm

  a crew of college students from UCIrvine called Kaba Modern. Kaba Modern is comprised of all Asian ... room for two Asian dance crews in the finals. As angryasianman(.com) put it: "In the end, both ... to go home. But man, how awesome was it to see those two groups of (mostly) Asian dancers standing ...

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