{"id":3865,"date":"2009-12-14T15:28:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2013-09-22T00:59:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:59:26","slug":"sci-fi-offers-surprising-insights-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3865","title":{"rendered":"Sci fi offers surprising insights on race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehoot.net\/articles\/5506\" target=\"_blank\">Sci fi offers surprising insights on race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehoot.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Brandeis Hoot<\/a><br \/>\nBrandeis University<br \/>\n2009-03-06<\/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, <strong><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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hamako, a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 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. Hamako calls this the \u201cmessiah\u201d depiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using clips from \u201cUnderworld,\u201d Hamako showed the movie\u2019s symbolic pitting of the new messiah version of mixed race against the old monster version. Hamako said that this is a way of injecting the new stereotypes about mixed race into the audience\u2019s mind and attempting to justify forgetting that the old stereotypes existed by symbolically destroying them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thehoot.net\/articles\/5506\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci fi offers surprising insights on race The Brandeis Hoot Brandeis University 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[1523,1525,1524],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-brandeis-hoot","tag-eric-hamako","tag-marissa-lainzi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}