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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  December 07, 2007

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  or announced outside of the circle of participants unless the performer-player chooses to break the ... moving body apart, fixing joints as relational algorithmic equations and creating a database of possible ...
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  MC NORMCORE

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  Eva Hageman University of Maryland College Park

  May 22, 2014

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  wildness and sexual outsiderness through a proximity to blackness. Thus, as others have also argued, ... of white supremacy and is only possible because of her distinct brand of normativity. In an interview ...
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  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

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  Greg Oguss University of Southern California

  March 20, 2008

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  a commentary on the “Black is Beautiful” era, which dates back to James Brown’s 1968 hit “Say It Loud (I’m ... Black and I’m Proud),” a song that became the soundtrack to the following decade, featuring ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  masculinities made possible by contemporary cable’s hyper-competitive targeting of young male audiences. This ... Hispanic, and “old” panelists, demographics nominally outside of Comedy Central’s targeted audience, but ...
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  Of Niggas and Citizens: Mobilizing Strategies on The Boondocks and the Rhetoric of Blame

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  July 27, 2007

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  itself. One possible explanation follows Kobena Mercer's argument that people of color experience ... watching, which potentially brings the satirist’s critical insider/outsider position into conflict with the ...
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  Awkward: The Floating Signifier

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  Racquel Gates College of Staten Island, CUNY

  May 02, 2013

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  Jones' hand gestures reveals Rae's own familiarity with the show and possible fandom. On Don't ...
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  Situating Snookie: The Jersey Shore's framing of an Ethnic Enclave

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  Roger Almendarez Northwestern University

  September 29, 2011

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  controlled space of the spectacle that I call a media sphere. While this view—from outside of the ... practices. Though I would not venture to say that Jersey Shore is relatable to any specific ethnicity outside ...
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  Netflix and Shifting Global Circulations of Race

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  Jasmine Mitchell State University of New York-Old Westbury

  March 30, 2018

  4 comments

  networks.  Since 2017, Netflix has been developing series in Brazil, which it markets both inside and outside ...
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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

  4 comments

  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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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

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  gender focus, but I’m willing to bet it’s not an accidental one.) ...

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