A Kansas City Star 2008 Notable Book
Since the early days of Hollywood film, portrayals of interracial romance and of individuals of mixed racial and ethnic heritage have served to highlight and challenge fault lines within Hollywood and the nation’s racial categories and borders. Mixed Race Hollywood is a pioneering compilation of essays on mixed-race romance, individuals, families, and stars in U.S. film and media culture.
Situated at the cutting-edge juncture of ethnic studies and media studies, this collection addresses early mixed-race film characters, Blaxploitation, mixed race in children’s television programming, and the ‘outing’ of mixed-race stars on the Internet, among other issues and contemporary trends in mixed-race representation. The contributors explore this history and current trends from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives in order to better understand the evolving conception of race and ethnicity in contemporary culture.
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Camilla Fojas is Foundation Professor and Director of the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her most recent books include Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture and Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop CultureMeer e-boeken van dezelfde auteur (s) / Editor
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