Tavia Nyongo

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The Walking Dead and the uncanny returns of race

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Tavia Nyongo NYU

March 09, 2012
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The Walking Dead and the uncanny returns of race uncanny The Walking Dead race memory Curator's Note It’s easier to imagine the end of the world, it’s been said, than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. It also seems easier to imagine such an end ...

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Re: God and Country and Scotty McCreery

ceding the territory?

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Tavia Nyongo NYU

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 — 10:30 am
It's my professional duty not to sneer at pop culture, but this season's AI finale made that especially difficult, for reasons you make clear in this post. I wonder if, post-Adam Lambert, the show's red state of mind is increasingly becomin ...
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Re: The Comfort Women of the Digital Industries: Asian Women in David Fincher's "The Social Network"

Limits of social realism?

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Tavia Nyongo NYU

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 — 11:38 pm
I had this same conversation during the Golden Globes, in which I took the film to task for its unimaginative depictions of women. A friend held the view that the film was critiquing the culture of male privilege in tech start ups (and at Harvard!) and, f ...