Haerin Shin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496811523
- eISBN:
- 9781496811561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496811523.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Haerin (Helen) Shin, in “Engineering the Techno-Orient: The Hyperrealization of Post-Racial Politics in Cloud Atlas,” considers visions of technologized Asia and Asian bodies in the film Cloud Atlas ...
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Haerin (Helen) Shin, in “Engineering the Techno-Orient: The Hyperrealization of Post-Racial Politics in Cloud Atlas,” considers visions of technologized Asia and Asian bodies in the film Cloud Atlas (2012), and to a lesser extent the Philips TV commercial Robotskin (2007). Shin focuses on specific scenes that attempt to visualize the motif of crossing but instead deteriorate into problematic instances of conflation. Shin explores the appropriative use of stereotypes in transmedia augmentations related to techno-Orientalism, post-racialist politics, and Baudrillardan simulacra.Less
Haerin (Helen) Shin, in “Engineering the Techno-Orient: The Hyperrealization of Post-Racial Politics in Cloud Atlas,” considers visions of technologized Asia and Asian bodies in the film Cloud Atlas (2012), and to a lesser extent the Philips TV commercial Robotskin (2007). Shin focuses on specific scenes that attempt to visualize the motif of crossing but instead deteriorate into problematic instances of conflation. Shin explores the appropriative use of stereotypes in transmedia augmentations related to techno-Orientalism, post-racialist politics, and Baudrillardan simulacra.
Leilani Nishime
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038075
- eISBN:
- 9780252095344
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038075.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, tracing the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian ...
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This first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, tracing the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. The book's perceptive readings of popular media—movies, television shows, magazine articles, and artwork—indicate how and why the viewing public often fails to identify multiracial Asian Americans. Using actor Keanu Reeves, the Matrix trilogy, and golfer Tiger Woods as examples, the book suggests that this failure is tied to gender, sexuality, and post-racial politics. Also considering alternative images such as reality TV star Kimora Lee Simmons, the television show Battlestar Galactica, and the artwork of Kip Fulbeck, this incisive study offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.Less
This first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, tracing the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. The book's perceptive readings of popular media—movies, television shows, magazine articles, and artwork—indicate how and why the viewing public often fails to identify multiracial Asian Americans. Using actor Keanu Reeves, the Matrix trilogy, and golfer Tiger Woods as examples, the book suggests that this failure is tied to gender, sexuality, and post-racial politics. Also considering alternative images such as reality TV star Kimora Lee Simmons, the television show Battlestar Galactica, and the artwork of Kip Fulbeck, this incisive study offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.
Nikhil Singh
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines how sovereign violence defines the meanings and effects attached to race by bringing W. E. B. DuBois into conversation with Michael Omi and Howard Winant. It deploys racial ...
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This chapter examines how sovereign violence defines the meanings and effects attached to race by bringing W. E. B. DuBois into conversation with Michael Omi and Howard Winant. It deploys racial formation theory alongside DuBois to conceptualize race as less “precipitated out of social relations” than “remade as social relation,” in order to expose race as reconstituted in the practices of permanent war and as deeply embedded in “the uniquely violent foundations of Western modernity.” It also deconstructs racist depictions of Barack Obama and highlights the complex and troubling contradictions that his presidency engenders, not only for a white hegemony founded on “post-racial” politics but also for sovereign violence legitimized under the global umbrella of the expanded U.S. national security state.Less
This chapter examines how sovereign violence defines the meanings and effects attached to race by bringing W. E. B. DuBois into conversation with Michael Omi and Howard Winant. It deploys racial formation theory alongside DuBois to conceptualize race as less “precipitated out of social relations” than “remade as social relation,” in order to expose race as reconstituted in the practices of permanent war and as deeply embedded in “the uniquely violent foundations of Western modernity.” It also deconstructs racist depictions of Barack Obama and highlights the complex and troubling contradictions that his presidency engenders, not only for a white hegemony founded on “post-racial” politics but also for sovereign violence legitimized under the global umbrella of the expanded U.S. national security state.
