{"id":31406,"date":"2014-06-15T23:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T23:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31406"},"modified":"2017-04-17T23:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:08:57","slug":"undercover-asian-multiracial-asian-americans-in-visual-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31406","title":{"rendered":"Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/67sde4kc9780252038075.html\" target=\"_blank\">Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Illinois Press<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 2014<br \/>\n264 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9 in.<br \/>\n15 black &amp; white photographs<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03807-5<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-252-07956-6<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/nishime\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leilani Nishime<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Communication<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/67sde4kc9780252038075.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/images\/9780252079566_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Representations of mixed race Asian Americans in popular culture<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, Leilani Nishime traces the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. Nishime&#8217;s perceptive readings of popular media&#8211;movies, television shows, magazine articles, and artwork&#8211;indicate how and why the viewing public often fails to identify multiracial Asian Americans. Using actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keanu_Reeves\" target=\"_blank\">Keanu Reeves<\/a>, golfer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiger_Woods\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a>, and the television show <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a><\/em> as examples, Nishime suggests that this failure is tied to gender, sexuality, and post-racial politics. In contrast to these representations, Nishime provides a set of alternative moments when audiences can view multiracial Asians as multiracial. Through a consideration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Matrix_(franchise)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Matrix<\/em> trilogy<\/a>, reality TV star <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kimora_Lee_Simmons\" target=\"_blank\">Kimora Lee Simmons<\/a>, and the artwork of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seaweedproductions.com\/about\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kip Fulbeck<\/a>, these examples highlight both the perils and benefits of racial visibility, uncovering our society&#8217;s ways of constructing racial categories. Throughout this incisive study, Nishime offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representations of mixed race Asian Americans in popular culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,16,11,8413,8,17,20],"tags":[4444,14806,60,1985,105,1111],"class_list":["post-31406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-books","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-keanu-reeves","tag-kip-fulbeck","tag-leilani-nishime","tag-tiger-woods","tag-university-of-illinois-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31406","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=31406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53542,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31406\/revisions\/53542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}