Undercover Asian

Leilani Nishime is an assistant professor of communications at the University of Washington and the coeditor of East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture.

"In the case of Undercover Asian, Nishime's critical intervention cannot be overstated. Her book compels readers to see multiracial Asian Americans, to understand their function in discourses of popular culture, to contextualize the place of multiracial Asian Americans in contemporary society, and to challenge our ideas of race and racialization."--Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas  "Nishime makes a compelling argument for productive possibilities in the way that we understand multiracial bodies and narratives. This fascinating, elegant book provides a model for doing this kind of analysis and creating new narratives so that these possibilities may one day be realized."--Feminist Media Studies  "Nishime's persuasive, well-grounded analysis yields genuinely brilliant insights regarding the pitfalls and possibilities of multiracial visibility in contemporary media culture. Lucidly written with appealing attention to popular texts, this is the sort of book that moves multiracial and Asian American studies in interesting and engaging new directions."--Glen Mimura, author of Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video

• CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface. Why Are You? Multiracial Asian Americans and the Question of Visibility1. Multiracial Asian Americans and the Myth of the Mulatto MillenniumPART I: UNDERCOVER ASIANS2. Queer Keanu: The Politics of Bad Acting in the Era of Don't Ask, Don't Tell3. Tiger Woods and the Perils of Colorblind Celebrity4. Aliens: The Interracial Family in Battlestar GalacticaPART II: ASIANS UNCOVERED5. The Matrix Trilogy and Multiraciality at the End of Time6. Camp Kimora7. Seeing MultiracialNotesBibliographyIndex