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  "And I Talk Pretty Too": Race, Dialect and the Beauty Myth.

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  Carnelia Gipson Old Dominion University

  May 14, 2010

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  physical transformations and grueling tests of mental endurance for the chance to win a $100,000 contract ...
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  Skins: Immigration and the arrival and departure of Thomas

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  Jeanette Monaco University of the West of England

  May 21, 2010

  the college cannot make rent money fast enough. Thomas finally wins the right to stay after ...
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  Re: Lessons from Buckley: Race and the American Right

  Buckley

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  Friday, June 11, 2010 — 4:04 am

  to engage and more to win, though as Jeff points out he gave his guests time to speak, without ...
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  The “Oh My Salvatore” Vlog as a Case of “Crazy” but Permissible Fan Behavior

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  Kristen Warner University of Alabama

  June 16, 2010

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  The “Oh My Salvatore” Vlog as a Case of “Crazy” but Permissible Fan Behavior Vampire Diaries fandom celebrity Curator's Note **Spoiler alert: This clip concerns the season finale in graphic detail.** Today’s curated clip explores a fan’s video reacti ...
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  Re: The “Oh My Salvatore” Vlog as a Case of “Crazy” but Permissible Fan Behavior

  Thanks, Annie.

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  Kristen Warner University of Alabama

  Wednesday, June 16, 2010 — 2:30 pm

  Oprah's new shows. He certainly may win without this assistance but it doesn't hurt that John Mayer ...
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  "Twilight is a license to print money": Selling the Female Film Franchise

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  Courtney Brannon Donoghue University of Texas - Austin

  June 30, 2010

  marketing franchise blockbuster Curator's Note A recent cycle of high earning female stars and ...
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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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  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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  Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the Potential of a USA Network Genre

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  July 12, 2010

  15 comments

  people/earn a living outside or ancillary to "the law" (a variation: pursues traditional form of job ...
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  Action Movies & Masculinity

  August 09, 2010 to August 13, 2010

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