{"id":10149,"date":"2010-11-17T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10149"},"modified":"2013-05-30T01:49:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T01:49:20","slug":"multiracial-representations-nishime-examines-battlestar-galactica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10149","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial representations: Nishime examines Battlestar Galactica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/research\/nishime.html\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial representations: Nishime examines Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Washington<br \/>\nDepartment of Communications<br \/>\n2010-11-15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Weber<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/nishime\/\" target=\"_blank\">LeiLani Nishime<\/a>, 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 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battlestar_Galactica\" target=\"_blank\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/em>. Although science fiction is generally a genre about the future, it often reflects current social issues. Nishime is a scholar on multiracial and interracial studies, Asian American media representations, and Asian American subcultural production. In her study, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/research\/assets\/nishime.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Aliens: Narrating U.S. Global Identity Through Transnational Adoption and Interracial Marriage in <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em><\/a>,\u201d she identifies visual and narrative representations of multiracial people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article and watch a short video clip\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/research\/nishime.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,1196,8,20,842],"tags":[4443,4444,1985,745],"class_list":["post-10149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-amanda-weber","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-leilani-nishime","tag-university-of-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}