Blasian invasion : racial mixing in the celebrity industrial complex /

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"Myra S. Washington probes the social construction of race through the mixed-race identity of Blasians, people of Black and Asian ancestry. She looks at the construction of the identifier Blasian and how this term went from being undefined to forming a significant role in popular media. Today B...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Washington, Myra S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
Series:Race, rhetoric, and media series.
Subjects:
Racially mixed people.
Celebrities.
Célébrités.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Blasian Invasion
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE Theorizing Blasians
  • CHAPTER TWO Birth of a Blasian
  • CHAPTER THREE Modeling Race Refashioning Blasianness
  • CHAPTER FOUR â#x80;#x9C;Because Iâ#x80;#x99;m Blasianâ#x80;#x9D; Tiger Woods, Scandal, and Protecting the Blasian Brand
  • CHAPTER FIVE Sporting the Blasian Body
  • CONCLUSION En-Blasianing the Future
  • Notes

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