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Archive for December, 2011

<strong>Shades Of Grey: Interracial Couples On TV</strong> <br /> <em>Erica Chito Childs / Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center</em>

Shades Of Grey: Interracial Couples On TV
Erica Chito Childs / Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

While real-life interracial marriage remains low, interracial couples on television are increasingly popular. Do they signify increased racial acceptance or simply reproduce long-standing prejudices?

<strong>I’m Not Here</strong> <br /> <em>Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln</em>

I’m Not Here
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln

It’s time for us to center down, appreciate our current existence and be sensitive to our real surroundings instead of being online all the time.

<strong>Race and Labor, Unplugged: Alex Rivera’s <em>Sleep Dealer</em> </strong> <br /> <em>Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi</em>

Race and Labor, Unplugged: Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi

On the representation and critique of transnational power relationships and transborder racialization in the movie Sleepdealer

<strong><em>The Jeremy Kyle Show</em>: Middle Class Territory</strong> <br /> <em>Faye Davies / Birmingham City University</em>

The Jeremy Kyle Show: Middle Class Territory
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University

How The Jeremy Kyle Show reflects cultural anxiety about the lower class.

<strong>“We’re Grinding Like Everybody Else”: Race, Video Game Culture, and New Media Authorship</strong> <br /> <em>TreaAndrea M. Russworm / University of Massachusetts, Amherst</em>

“We’re Grinding Like Everybody Else”: Race, Video Game Culture, and New Media Authorship
TreaAndrea M. Russworm / University of Massachusetts, Amherst

A thought-provoking deconstruction of the place of race and authorship in video game culture.

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