Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Instead of advocating for an endless slide of identities, Cablinasian works effectively as a marker of a racialized identity if its users momentarily stop its movement and claim identities, while retaining their original reflexivity. In two parallel arguments, cultural critics Stuart Hall (1996) and Candice Chuh (2003) advocate for an understanding of race as fiction,…
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Multiracial representations: Nishime examines Battlestar Galactica University of Washington Department of Communications 2010-11-15 Amanda Weber LeiLani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communication, is a self-proclaimed science fiction fan, so it seemed natural to her to set her research sights on the TV series Battlestar Galactica. Although science fiction is generally a genre about the future, it…
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The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future Cinema Journal Volume 44, Number 2 (Winter, 2005) pages 34-49 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Applying the literature of passing to cyborg cinema makes visible the politics of cyborg representations and illuminates contemporary conceptions of mixed-race subjectivity and interpolations of mixed-race bodies. The passing…