Name: Mixed Race Hollywood By Mary Beltran
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Mixed Race Hollywood Summary

Mixed Race Hollywood by Mary Beltran

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.

Mixed Race Hollywood Reviews

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 *

About Mary Beltran

Mary Beltran (Editor)
Mary Beltran is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film and affiliate of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meaning of Film and TV Stardom and co-editor of Mixed Race Hollywood.
Camilla Fojas (Editor)
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 Culture

Introduction 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

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NPB9780814799888

ISBN 13

9780814799888

ISBN 10

0814799884

Title

Mixed Race Hollywood by Mary Beltran

Author

Mary Beltran

Condition

New

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

New York University Press

Year published

2008-09-01

Number of pages

352

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