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Asian American
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Battlestar Gallactica
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gender
hapa
interracial
Keanu Reeves
Kimora Lee Simmons
Kip Fulbeck
mixed race
mulatto
multiracial
popular culture
queer
sexuality
The Matrix
Tiger Woods
visibility
visual culture
Product details
- ISBN 9780252079566
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 2013
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this first book-length 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. Also considering alternative images such as reality TV star Kimora Lee Simmons, the television show Battlestar Galactica, and the artwork of Kip Fulbeck, this incisive study offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.
Leilani Nishime is an assistant professor of communications at the University of Washington and the coeditor of East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture.
