Reversing the Lens

Jun Xing is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and director of the Difference, Power and Discrimination Program at Oregon State University, and author of Asian America Through the Lens: History, Representations, and Identity, and Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: The American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China, 1919-1937.Lane Ryo Hirabayashi is The George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community at UCLA, and author and editor of numerous titles, including Reversing the Lens (UPC), Common Ground (UPC), The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp and Teaching Asian America: Diversity & the Problem of Community.

"This book is of exceptional value. . . . what the book does it does more usefully, more provocatively, than any other book."—P. H. Stacey, Choice "Well written, concise, and descriptive. . . . this book will answer many questions as well as stimulate discussions. Highly recommended."—Kim L. Morrison, MultiCultural Review

• ; Foreword Preface Acknowledgments; Part I Beyond the Image I Introduction -Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and Jun Xing 2 Media Empowerment, Smashing Stereotypes, and Developing Empathy -Jun Xing; Part II Representing Racialized Communities 3 Video Constructions of Asian America: Teaching Montereys Boat People -Malcolm Collier and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi 4 American Indians in Film: Thematic Contours of Cinematic Colonization -Ward Churchill 5 El Espejo/The Mirror: Reflections of Cultural Memory -Carmen Huaco-Nuzum 6 Mississippi Masala: Crossing Desire and Interest -Adeleke Adeeko 7 Skin Deep: Using Video to Teach Race and Critical Thinking -Brenda J. Allen; Part III Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Representation 8 Confronting Gender Stereotypes of Asian American Women: Slaying the Dragon -Marilyn C. Alquizola and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi; 9 Screens and Bars: Confronting Cinema Representations of Race and Crime -Lee Bernstein 10 The Queering of Chicana Studies: Philosophy, Text, and Image -Elisa Facio 11; The Matrix: Using American Popular Film to Teach Concepts of Eastern Mysticism -Jeffrey B. Ho 12 Beyond the Hollywood Hype: Unmasking State Oppression Against People of Color -Brett Stockdill, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David N. Pellow; Part IV Retrospect and Prospects 13 Self, Society, and the "Other": Using Film to Teach About Ethnicity and Race -Jun Xing 14 The Issue of Reinscription: Pedagogical Responses -Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and Marilyn C. Alquizola; Selected Filmography; List of Contributors; Index;