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  100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century"

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  Roopika Risam Emory University

  July 05, 2010

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  York Times worried, "If the black man wins … his brothers will misrepresent his win to much more ... recounts a July 5, 1910 article on Johnson's win from the Los Angeles Times: "A word to the black ... Reno." Despite media efforts to downplay the significance of Johnson’s win, violence erupted around the ...
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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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  content agreement and proudly display their win. In Nexon's Audition, dance moves are coded as data ...
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  Finding Cullen Jones: The Complicated Position of Race in Swimming

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  Emily Newman St Cloud State University

  July 07, 2010

  Jason Lezak was not favored to win; rather the French and their dominant sprinters were favorites. ... make the Olympic team, the second to win a gold medal. His absence from the celebratory pictures ...
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  Affirmative Activision

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  December 09, 2010

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  units. By the end of launch day, the game sold 5.6 million copies, earning $360 million. Clearly, flak ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  City, and Key & Peele have earned much of the attention in Comedy Central’s recent run of standout ...
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  Amy Schumer: Enemy of the Status Quo

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  Kathleen Collins John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York)

  February 12, 2015

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  make it in a traditional boys’ club, Schumer has earned admirable success and power. Her explicit and ...
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  Awkward Black Girl’s Success in New Media Highlights Old Racism

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  Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. Goucher College

  April 30, 2013

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  Internet sensation. The debut episode of the first season earned more than 250,000 visits during season one ...
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  It’s Not TV, It’s PeePee

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  Walter Metz Montana State University

  September 21, 2007

  pastry is not without its importance. For me, however, “TMYLM” wins the cake: the pilot is a veritable ...
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  In Good Taste?: The BET Awards and the Burden of Representation

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  Lauren Cramer Pace University

  March 01, 2013

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  artists who perform and win awards at the ceremony typically represent the most mainstream tastes and ...
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  “I’ve Seen My Death…This Ain’t It”: Putting the White Nationalist Myth of the West to Rest

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  Brian Steinbach Kansas University

  April 29, 2018

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  gun-slinging glory, tend to win. Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell), for example, only partakes in violence in this ...

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