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Undercover Asian : multiracial Asian Americans in visual culture / LeiLani Nishime.

Van Pelt Library E184.A75 N57 2014
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English
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Physical Description:
xxi, 238 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Urbana, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Summary:
In this first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans. Leilani Nishime Trace the codes that Alternatively Enable and Prevent Audiences from Recognizing the Multiracial Status of Asian Americans. Nishime's perceptive readings of popular media-movies, television shows, magazine articles, and artwork-indicate how and why the viewing public often fails to identify multiracial Asian Americans. Using actor Keanu Reeves, golfer Tiger Woods, and the television show Battlestar Galactica as examples, Nishime suggests that this failure is tied to gender, sexuality, and post-racial politics. In contrast to these representations, Nishime provides a set of alternative moments when audiences can view multiracial Asians as multiracial. Through a consideration of the Matrix trilogy, reality TV star Ki-mora Lee Simmons, and the artwork of Kip Fulbeck, these examples highlight both the perils and benefits of racial visibility, uncovering our society's ways of constructing racial categories. Throughout this incisive study, Nishime offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America. Book jacket.
Contents:
  • Preface. why are you? : multiracial Asian Americans and the question of visibility
  • The myth of the mulatto millennium
  • Queer Keanu : the politics of bad acting in the era of don't ask, don't tell
  • Tiger Woods and the perils of colorblind celebrity
  • Aliens : the inter-racial family in Battlestar Galactica
  • The matrix trilogy and multiraciality at the end of time
  • Camp Kimora
  • Seeing multiracial.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780252038075
  • 025203807X
  • 9780252079566
  • 0252079566
OCLC:
843124192

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