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
Main Author: Washington, Myra S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Racially mixed people.
Race relations.
Popular culture.
Celebrities.
Black people > Relations with Asians.
African Americans > Relations with Asian Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > 21e siecle.
Noirs americains > Relations avec les Americains d'origine asiatique.
Celebrites.
Famous Persons
Popular culture > United States > 21st century.
Racially mixed people > Ethnic identity.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Theorizing Blasians
  • Birth of a Blasian
  • Modeling race : refashioning Blasianness
  • "Because I'm Blasian" : Tiger Woods, scandal, and protecting the Blasian brand
  • Sporting the Blasian body
  • Conclusion : en-Blasianing the future.

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