{"id":11839,"date":"2011-01-30T22:18:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2013-09-22T00:57:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:57:39","slug":"sci-fi-offers-surprising-insights-on-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11839","title":{"rendered":"Sci fi offers surprising insights on race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thebrandeishoot.com\/articles\/5506\" target=\"_blank\">Sci fi offers surprising insights on race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebrandeishoot.com\/articles\/5506\" target=\"_blank\">The Brandeis Hoot<br \/>\n<\/a>2009-03-06<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marissa Lainzi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Months and months of wading through red ink, volleying e-mails, coordinating, coordinating, and coordinating came to fruition for the Mixed Heritage Club on Friday night, as their much-anticipated speaker, <a href=\"http:\/\/erichamako.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Hamako<\/a>, gave the talk, \u201cMonsters, Messiahs, or Something Else?\u201d a discussion of mixed race issues in sci-fi movies.<\/p>\n<p>Hamako, a doctoral student at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/wld\/aboutus.htm\" target=\"_blank\">University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/a>, intrigued the audience with his observations and theories regarding the portrayal of the \u201cnew\u201d and \u201cold\u201d mixed race ideals in popular entertainment. Citing the movies <em>Blade<\/em> and <em>Underworld<\/em>, Hamako explained the portrayal of mixed-race people as \u201cmonsters\u201d or \u201cmessiahs\u201d\u2014with vampires, humans, and werewolves becoming the racial metaphors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201cmonster\u201d depiction of mixed-race people, Hamako explained, comes from the \u201cold\u201d conception of mixed race, which presented mixed-race people as deformed, immoral, or somehow wrong or inhuman. The \u201cnew\u201d conception of mixed race, on the other hand, presents opposite stereotypes\u2014that mixed-race people are beautiful, genetically superior, and the easy way to quash racism.<\/strong> Hamako calls this the \u201cmessiah\u201d depiction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thebrandeishoot.com\/articles\/5506\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci fi offers surprising insights on race The Brandeis Hoot 2009-03-06 Marissa Lainzi Months and months of wading through red ink, volleying e-mails, coordinating, coordinating, and coordinating came to fruition for the Mixed Heritage Club on Friday night, as their much-anticipated speaker, Eric Hamako, gave the talk, \u201cMonsters, Messiahs, or Something Else?\u201d a discussion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[5349,1525,1524,5348],"class_list":["post-11839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-brandeis-university","tag-eric-hamako","tag-marissa-lainzi","tag-the-brandeis-hoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839","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=11839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}