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Book SynopsisA pioneering compilation of essays on mixed-race romance, individuals, families, and stars in U.S. film and media culture
Trade Review"Mixed Race Hollywood does to race what queer has done to sexualityit challenges binary thinking and the normative categories it creates. This book opens up productive new areas for scholarship on Hollywood representation and the intersections of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and nation." -- Chon A. Noriega,University of California, Los Angeles
"A significant step forward in the study of race and media. There are very few academic collections that match this one in timeliness, depth and readability.
Mixed Race Hollywood reflects both a theoretical turn in critical race studies and the new representational habits of a culture in which celebrities wear their multiracial status as a badge of pride and sign of demographic pull." -- Diane Negra,University of East Anglia
"Each essay stands as an exciting contribution to an open-ended discussion." * Choice *
"An interrogation of pop culture’s representations of multi-racial characters and interracial relationships." * Colorlines *
"An immensely readable interrogation of contemporary representations of multi-racial characters and inter-racial relationships in film, television, and popular culture." * ColorLines *
"An accomplished, well-researched view of race identity in cinema." * M/C Reviews *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Mary Beltran and Camilla Fojas Miscegenation Classical Hollywood and the Filmic Writing of Interracial History, 1931-1939 J. E. Smyth Mixed Race Frontiers Camilla Fojas Mixedfolks.com Lisa Nakamura Part II Catching Up with History: Night of the Quarter Moon, the Rhinelander Case, and Interracial Marriage in 1959 Heidi Ardizzone A Window into a Life Uncloseted Robb Hernandez The Biracial Subject as Passive Receptacle for Japanese American Memory in Come See the Paradise Kent A. Ono Part III Race Mixing and the Fantastic: Lineages of Identity and Genre in Contemporary Hollywood Adam Knee Virtual Race Jane Park From Blaxploitation to Mixploitation: Male Leads and Changing Mixed Race Identities Gregory T. Carter Part IV Detecting Difference in Devil in a Blue Dress Aisha D. Bastiaans Mixed Race in Latinowood Mary Beltran Mixed Race on the Disney Channel: From Johnny Tsunami through Lizzie McGuire and Ending with The Cheetah Girls Angharad N. Valdivia The Matrix Trilogy, Keanu Reeves, and Multiraciality at the End of Time LeiLani Nishime* Contributors Index
