LeiLani Nishime explores the Asian American experience in her new bookPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Communications/Media Studies, Social Science, United States on 2014-06-16 02:48Z by Steven |
LeiLani Nishime explores the Asian American experience in her new book
The Seattle Globalist
2014-03-25
Diane Han
University of Washington
We understand that race doesn’t exist biologically, but it doesn’t mean that race isn’t real.
“We think we see race because it exists in the world, but really, we learn to see race,” says LeiLani Nishime, author of the recently published “Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture.”
“I think the approach to race is not to ignore it or pretend it is not there, but to confront it, see that it’s there, and understand what it does for us in a social context.”
Nishime’s book is a critical examination of the ways multiracial Asian Americans are represented in mass media…
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