Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly dancers, and dagger-wearing terrorists. But do only Hollywood movies and TV news have the power to frame public discourse? This interdisciplinary study transfers media framing theory to litera…
Stereotype threat: theory, process, and application
Argues that gay Asian American men, used to gender privilege within their own communities, must grapple with the idea that, as Asians, they have historically been feminized as a result of Western domination and colonization, and as a result, they are minorities within the gay co…
The pernicious combination of tribe and tradition continues to tether modern South Africans to ideas about the region's remote past as primitive, timeless, and unchanging. Any hunger for knowledge or understanding of the past before European colonialism remains to a significant …
The pernicious combination of tribe and tradition continues to tether modern South Africans to ideas about the region's remote past as primitive, timeless, and unchanging. Any hunger for knowledge or understanding of the past before European colonialism remains to a significant …
Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers w…
Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers w…
Psychoanalytic film study that explores the way East Asia is a key enigmatic signifier for the West.
In an exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, King traces a long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood…
Racialism and the Media -- Contemporary Zip Coons: The Problem with Funny -- Ghettofabulous: How Low Can You Go? -- Advertising and Black Folks: Whassup? -- Black-ish and the Changing Nature of Black Identity -- Balancing Stereotypes: Black Male and Female Roles on Prime-Time Te…
"Racialism and Media: Black-ish, Black Jesus and the First Black American President is an exploration of how the nature of racial ideology has changed in our society. Yes, there are still ugly racists who push uglier racism, but there are also popular constructions of race routi…
"Elusive Childhood examines how discourse touched by the identity politics of youth might be revised for fairness. Susan Honeyman demonstrates this potential by reading representations of children from throughout the Modern episteme in works of such writers as Henry James, Edith…
