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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nishime, LeiLani, author.

Series:

Asian American experience.

Asian American Experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans in popular culture--United States.

Asian Americans in popular culture.

Multiracial people in popular culture--United States.

Multiracial people in popular culture.

Visual culture--United States.

Visual culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, Leilani Nishime traces 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 and the Matrix trilogy, golfer Tiger Woods as examples, Nishime suggests that this failure is tied to gender, sexuality, and post-racial politics.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print verison record.

ISBN:

9780252095344

0252095340

OCLC:

884725709