{"id":38233,"date":"2014-11-09T23:22:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38233"},"modified":"2014-11-09T23:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:22:51","slug":"review-leilani-nishimes-undercover-asian-multiracial-asian-americans-in-visual-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38233","title":{"rendered":"Review: Leilani Nishime’s Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Review: Leilani Nishime’s Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Slant<\/a>
\n2014-02-03<\/p>\n

Clayton Dillard<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Critic<\/p>\n

In 2003, The New York Times<\/em> published an article entitled “Generation E.A.<\/a>” which discussed the emergent role of multiracial people in advertising campaigns and concluded by suggesting that they’re an emerging racial category and a stepping-stone key to a race-free future. According to Leilani Nishime<\/a>, such a notion has become dominant among popular media outlets, which awaits an “inevitable end to race.” For Nishime, these inclinations aren’t only misguided, but a constituent for racial oppression, since “color blindness is not the opposite of racial hierarchies; it is its enabling fiction.” These concerns form the bulk of Nishime’s focus in Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture<\/em><\/a>, an exciting new addition to the canon of critical race studies<\/a>, which marks the first book-length examination of media images of multiracial Asian Americans.<\/p>\n

Nishime’s scope extends across cinema, reality TV, episodic TV drama, advertising campaigns, sports figures, and art installations to offer a comprehensive sense of the representational landscape. Thus, she devotes two chapters to Keanu Reeves<\/a>, both as a celebrity persona in the 1990s and for his role as Neo in The Matrix<\/em><\/a> trilogy. Within media discussions of both Reeves’s ethnicity and sexuality, Nishime finds that “writers often revert to the queer rhetoric of closeting instead of summoning the racially inflected language of passing to describe Reeves racially.”…<\/p>\n

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