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  Re: Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5

  Alternatives to Capitalism and Terrorism

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  Friday, October 2, 2009 — 5:23 pm

   But, the alternatives it offers seem either bleak or fantastical.   On the bleak side, RE5 proposes ... fantastical side, RE5 offers gamers the opportunity to be the hero who saves the world from both White ...
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  Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs

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  Elizabeth McAlister Wesleyan University

  October 01, 2009

  1 comment

  a black man, and not just because this makes him ‘different,’ but because it makes it possible to see that ...
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  Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5

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  Cathy Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut

  September 30, 2009

  2 comments

  Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5 racism zombies neocolonialism Resident Evil 5 Curator's Note Racism, Postcolonialism, and Neocolonial Zombies: Resident Evil 5    Released March 13, 2009, Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 was ...
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  Re: The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

  Metamorphoses of the sexualized zombie

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  Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho New York University

  Tuesday, September 29, 2009 — 7:45 am

  that it is possible that the typical zombie issues may have migrated to other genres- science fiction, ...
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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  September 28, 2009

  7 comments

  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories race rape Orientalism Asian racism violence zombie horde Taken Resident Evil, Yellow Peril Arab Muslim sexual assault gang rape Curator's Note   In ...
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  If This is OurChart Then Where is MyChart?: Selective Lesbian Identities on The L Word’s Social Networking Site

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  September 23, 2009

  2 comments

  Moenning bubble over with enthusiasm about the community-building possibilities that OurChart could ...
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  You Write It! Or, The L Word Is Labor

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  Julie Levin Russo Stanford University

  September 21, 2009

  3 comments

  parallel that represents lesbianism as the privileged form of labor on both sides of the screen.   Inviting ...
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  “YouTube, MeToob? The depersonalization of personal video”

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  Todd Simpson Georgia State University

  September 10, 2009

  “One Million Views!” mark and this was one of the videos that made it possible.  Back to the “personal” ...
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  “Quiero Mis Quinces”: I want my MTV, in English and Spanish. Bilingual and Bicultural Popular Television.

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  Carolyn Brown American University

  September 08, 2009

  English. As it turns out, I am not that unusual. I’m a typical 2nd generation bicultural, bilingual Latino ...
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  Re: Feminist Sopranos

  A few additional comments

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  Frank P. Tomasulo Florida State University

  Tuesday, June 23, 2009 — 7:34 am

  thought he had "a banana in [the refrigerator]," a possible reference to his now-dormant male ...

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