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  Re: "'It's Tough Being Different'": The Pitfalls of Colorblindness in CW's The Vampire Diaries

  erasing race; erasing history

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  Kristina Busse Independent Scholar

  Tuesday, March 22, 2011 — 3:04 pm

  flashbacks, the witch identity, even the romance with Jeremy. I wonder if it might be possible to blindcast ... for that. Now I wonder how different casting choices would have affected other dynamics--an Asian ...
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  Re: "'It's Tough Being Different'": The Pitfalls of Colorblindness in CW's The Vampire Diaries

  Erasing History Indeed

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  Kristen Warner University of Alabama

  Tuesday, March 22, 2011 — 9:46 pm

  characters:  That is definitely possible but not done very often to my knowledge. I read somewhere that Shawn ... An Asian Stefan; a Hispanic Caroline:  Ha. It would totally need a show overhaul. It couldn't ...
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  Re: "'It's Tough Being Different'": The Pitfalls of Colorblindness in CW's The Vampire Diaries

   Self-reflexivity and

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  Kristina Busse Independent Scholar

  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 — 1:43 am

  to see that show where Elena's black, Stefan's asian, and Caroline hispanic????:D Oh wait, ...
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  Hottentot Venus 2.0?: Still Gawking at the Black Woman's Buttocks

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  Alfred Martin University of Texas at Austin

  March 23, 2011

  5 comments

  Hottentot Venus 2.0?: Still Gawking at the Black Woman's Buttocks race and television gender and sexuality black femininity Curator's Note In 19th Century Europe, Sara Baartman, also colloquially known as the Hottentot Venus, was exhibited as a ...
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  Yellow Voice and the Chinese International Student: Ricky Wong in "We Can Be Heroes"

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  Jane Chi Hyun Park University of Sydney

  March 24, 2011

  4 comments

  stunning landscape (Uluru). Meanwhile, the show cannot imagine a space for Chinese or Asian Australians who ... do not speak with an Asian accent, a population that certainly exists but is seldom represented in ...
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  Re: Gleaning Alex Haley's Scriptural "Roots"

  Mediated historical references

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  Thursday, March 24, 2011 — 5:35 pm

  and verbal wordplay that reminds me of references that we see with Charlie Chan and other Asian ... Americans.   Those references, as Robert Lee and others have argued, however, distance Asian Americans from ...
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  Re: Yellow Voice and the Chinese International Student: Ricky Wong in "We Can Be Heroes"

  Contrasting Asian voices

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  Friday, March 25, 2011 — 1:53 am

  "Asian-ness" and it seems to separate out "Asian-ness" from foreign-ness.   Your idea about ...
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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  March 25, 2011

  4 comments

  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced television South Asians South ... Asian racial performance Outsourced India comedy Asian Americans Accent Curator's Note In the 2010 ... South Asian/American actors and South Asian American writers. According to writer Geethika Lizardi, the ...
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  Re: Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced

  Reactions

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  Richard Newton Claremont Graduate University

  Friday, March 25, 2011 — 8:30 pm

  and its portrayals. All of these critics have either been  white or South Asian American graduate ...
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  Karolina Sobecka's WILDLIFE

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  Deke Weaver School of Art & Design, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

  March 28, 2011

  7 comments

  Karolina Sobecka's WILDLIFE wildlife New Media Art mobile projection DIY Curator's Note I'm a sucker for spectacle.   I used to work near Times Square.   They wrapped videoscreens completely around 745 Seventh Avenue.   Imaginary Forces des ...

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