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 alternat ... More
Keywords: multiracial Asian Americans, media images, movies, television shows, magazine articles, artwork, gender, sexuality, post-racial politics
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252038075 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 | DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252038075.001.0001 |
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