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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.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Undercover Asian
• Subtitle: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture
• Author: LeiLani Nishime
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780252038075
• ID: 04868404
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. December 2014

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