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03769aam a22004578i 4500 001 C1849DAAF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 171102s2017 miu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017025393 020 $a 1496814223 020 $a 9781496814227 035 $a (OCoLC)983697872 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HT1523 $b .W373 2017 082 00 $a 305.8/0595096 $2 23 084 $a SOC008000 $a SOC043000 $a SOC022000 $a SOC008000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Washington, Myra S., $e author. 245 10 $a Blasian invasion : $b racial mixing in the celebrity industrial complex / $c Myra S. Washington. 263 $a 1711 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c 2017. 300 $a pages cm. 490 1 $a Race, rhetoric, and media series 520 $a "Myra S. Washington probes the social construction of race through the mixed-race identity of Blasians, people of Black and Asian ancestry. She looks at the construction of the identifier Blasian and how this term went from being undefined to forming a significant role in popular media. Today Blasian has emerged as not just an identity Black/Asian mixed-race people can claim, but also a popular brand within the industry and a signifier in the culture at large. Washington tracks the transformation of Blasian from being an unmentioned category to a recognized status applied to other Blasian figures in media. Blasians have been neglected as a meaningful category of people in research, despite an extensive history of Black and Asian interactions within the United States and abroad. Washington explains that even though Americans have mixed in every way possible, racial mixing is framed in certain ways, which almost always seem to involve Whiteness. Unsurprisingly, media discourses about Blasians mostly conform to usual scripts already created, reproduced, and familiar to audiences about monoracial Blacks and Asians. In the first book on this subject, Washington regards Blasians as belonging to more than one community, given their multiple histories and experiences. Moving beyond dominant rhetoric, she does not harp on defining or categorizing mixed race, but instead recognizes the multiplicities of Blasians and the process by which they obtain meaning. Washington uses celebrities, including Kimora Lee, Dwayne Johnson, Hines Ward, and Tiger Woods, to highlight how they challenge and destabilize current racial debate, create spaces for themselves, and change the narratives that frame multiracial people. Finally, Washington asserts Blasians as not only evidence for the fluidity of identities, but also for the limitations of reductive racial binaries. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people. 650 0 $a Celebrities. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a African Americans in popular culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799734 650 7 $a Asian Americans in popular culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902440 776 08 $i Online version: $a Washington, Myra S., author. $t Blasian invasion $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017 $z 9781496814234 $w (DLC) 2017053185 830 0 $a Race, rhetoric, and media series. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217031738.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104062242.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C1849DAAF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search