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To be a vampire on Buffy, the vampire slayer: race and ("other") socially marginalizing positions on horror TV -- "America's" apple pie: baseball, Japan-bashing, and the sexual threat of economic miscegenation -- Power rangers: an ideological critique of neocolonialism -- Civilized colonialism: Pocahontas as neocolonial rhetoric / with Derek Buescher -- Domesticating terrorism: a neocolonial economy of différance -- Conclusion: making the implicit explicit

Asian American Studies After Critical Massis a dynamic collection that showcases the most exciting scholarship in the field from a critical and cultural studies perspective. Comprised of ten original essays written by a group of scholars at the vanguard of the discipline, this collection takes on a range of topics and concerns, including Asian American film and popular culture; Asian Americans at the dawn of the twenty-first century; globalization and transnational citizenship; and queer Asian America. Addressing some of the most exciting issues and ideas in Asian American studies, this book s

A Companion to Asian American Studies is comprised of 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Essays are drawn from international publications, from the 1970s to the present Includes coverage of psychology, history, literature, feminism, sexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, pop culture, queerness, hybridity, and diasporic consciousness Features a useful introduction by the editor reviewing the selections, and outlining future possibilities for the field Can be used alongside Asian American

Explores the functions of whiteness in late-20th-century movies to argue that films explicitly placing whiteness in relation to blackness use various strategies to recenter whiteness & block the positions of Others. It is contended that many films touted as antiracist actually reinforce the power of whiteness through subtle discursive adjustments that reconstitute a space for white dominance. Movies of the 1990s are compared to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), which served as an assimilationist model for those that followed. It is shown that texts emphasizing universal similarity use strategies to avoid addressing racial tensions resulting from material inequities. The various strategies, eg, the masculinized family in Smoke (1995), bear a strong resemblance to the "maternal femininity that transcends white hypocrisy" strategy used 30 years earlier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. How messages of whiteness in popular culture illuminate & impact the dynamics of contemporary racial politics are discussed. 4 Photographs, 36 References. J. Lindroth

According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze. In this groundbreaking collection edited by Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono, scholars seek to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. An out

Identity Research in Intercultural Communication, edited by Nilanjana Bardhan and Mark P. Orbe, is unique in scope because it brings together a vast range of positions on identity scholarship within intercultural communication under one umbrella. It tracks the state of identity research in the field and includes cutting-edge theoretical essays, and queries what kinds of theoretical, methodological, praxiological, and pedagogical boundaries researchers should be pushing in the future. This volume is an essential text for scholars, educ