Leilani Nishime
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 354585 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leilani Nishime |
| NOMBRES | Leilani |
| APELLIDO | Nishime |
| FIRMA | NISHIME L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8361-644X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Familial and Communal Histories as Environmental Care Work
The sharing of our family histories is a way to re-envision care work from a “racial ecologies” and critical environmental lens. We consider family histories as an enactment of the care work that is integral to the task of environmental communication. It is from this grounding that we resist neoliberal notions and practices of exchange. Instead, we contemplate what it means to think of care work beyond material culture and possessiveness. Rather,…
Who is the audience
Creating Community
Leilani Nishime interviews Vanessa Au and Ellison Sheih, the former and current codirectors of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Au and Sheih discuss the mission of the film festival, the process of selecting films, the ideological investments of the festival organizers, and the labor involved in running a festival. Of central importance to the conversation is the relationship between film festivals and the surrounding communities
Critical Approaches to the Climate Crisis
This essay turns to theories developed in critical rhetoric and cultural studies to give us an alternate understanding of what is at stake in the climate crisis and offer tools to respond to the crisis. Scholars from those fields, especially decolonial scholars, help us access alternate scales of both time and geography by shifting our perspective from universal to specific, from dominant to insurgent, and, even from human to more-than-human. Thi…
Seeing absence
Finding Asian Americans during the 2020 presidential election requires us to take up the paradoxical task of looking for what is not there. Elections stage our national narratives, resurrecting or revising them to define who we imagine ourselves to be. To be left out of the election narrative is to be neglected in the national imagination. This article contrasts the outsized effect of COVID-19 on Asian American populations with our near absence f…
Racial Ecologies
Introduction
Imag(in)ing the post-national television fan
In 2016, Viki.com and Netflix added the web drama Dramaworld to their libraries. The move represents a digital and transnational shift in programming and production. Co-produced by China's Jetavana Entertainment, South Korea's EnterMedia, and the US's Third Culture Content, Dramaworld signals the escalation of post-national television production. The show emerges where the splash of the ‘Korean Wave’ has flowed apart from and against flows of US-…
Mixed Race Matters
Mixed Race Matters:What Emma Stone and Bruno Mars Can Tell Us about the Future of Asian American Media Leilani Nishime (bio) Mixed-race Asian Americans are the most logical place to start thinking about the future of Asians in the United States while also being the least likely starting point for a conversation about Asian Americans in the media, especially visual media. Of all newlyweds in 2010, Asian Americans had the highest rate of outmarriag…
Reviving Bruce
These two case studies of the work of independent Asian American media producers show how Asian American audiences might construct paratexts for Bruce Lee’s work that address and undermine dominant stereotypes while also enabling a distinct “zone of transaction” between Asian American audiences and Lee’s films. By tracing the circulation and ideological investments of a Bruce Lee t-shirt manufactured by the Asian American ‘zine Giant Robot and th…
Whitewashing Yellow Futures in Ex Machina, Cloud Atlas, and Advantageous
This article examines racial transformation in three recent science films within the context of the entertainment industry practice of whitewashing Asian characters. It argues that the shift from yellowface to whitewashing in mainstream cinema manages anxieties about highly gendered transpacific labor migration under globalization. Cloud Atlas and Ex Machina portray a social logic that treats racialized bodies as prosthetic selves—disposable labo…
Global Asian American Popular Cultures
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced w…
Extinction, genealogy, and institutionalization
News accounts of the recent discovery of Hawai’i Sign Language tell of the identification of a new language—one nearing extinction—and, ultimately, the happy ending of language preservation. By applying postcolonial and disability studies scholarship to the news coverage, we reframe marginalized languages through an alternative logic. We examine the narratives of extinction, genealogy, and institutionalization that underlie both colonial and able…
Containment as Neocolonial Visual Rhetoric
Grounding our evidence in Karl Lagerfeld's Paris-Shanghai: A Fantasy, a filmic homage to Coco Chanel, we theorize a “visual rhetoric of containment,” which limits the subjectivity of the racial Other and consolidates whiteness. The visual rhetoric of containment manifests in four ways: the creation and enactment of “the yellowface gaze,” which affirms whiteness through the eyes of the “native” Other, the affirmation of a post-feminist model of ex…
Undercover Asian
In this first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, Leilani Nishime traces the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. Nishime'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 and t…
The Case for Cablinasian
This article advocates for the interdisciplinary use of critical race theory and critical rhetorical theory in communication to analyze racialized language and to evaluate the cultural and political significance of new racial discourses in the United States. The article examines the dissenting opinion inPlessy v Ferguson (1896)and the congressional hearings on the Tiger Woods Bill (1997), two key instances of public debate over multiracial catego…
Sexual Naturalization
Reviewed by: Sexual Naturalization: Asian American and Miscegenation leilani nishime (bio) Sexual Naturalization: Asian American and Miscegenation. By Susan Koshy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Despite the high rate of Asian American out-marriage, we have been slow to recognize the significance of cross-racial encounters. Susan Koshy's slim first book adds to the small but growing list of recent publications such as Rebecca King's Pu…
The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Book Review| October 01 2006 The Ellis Island Snow Globe The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand. LeiLani Nishime LeiLani Nishime Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 96–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501787 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation LeiLani Nishime; The Ellis Island Snow Globe. Journal of American Ethnic …
East Main Street
Communities on Display
The unveiling of the new Japanese American National Museum (JANM) marked the arrival of Japanese Americans as a social and economic force in Los Angeles. The new museum is impressive in both its size and $22 million price tag. It is located across the street from its earlier incarnation, a Buddhist temple converted into an exhibition space. The temple was not only the social center of the pre-WWII Little Tokyo; it was also one of the collection c…
Engendering Genre
China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston's book on the history of Chinese-Americans, followed close on the heels of the publication of her much acclaimed autobiography The Woman Warrior. Kingston has said that she first envisioned the two volumes as one book; yet if we view these books as companion works, then it is curious how differently they represent what might be called the Chinese-American experience (Talbot 12). While the first, most obvious divide…
Whitewashing Yellow Futures in Ex Machina, Cloud Atlas, and Advantageous
This article examines racial transformation in three recent science films within the context of the entertainment industry practice of whitewashing Asian characters. It argues that the shift from yellowface to whitewashing in mainstream cinema manages anxieties about highly gendered transpacific labor migration under globalization. Cloud Atlas and Ex Machina portray a social logic that treats racialized bodies as prosthetic selves—disposable labo…
The Case for Cablinasian
This article advocates for the interdisciplinary use of critical race theory and critical rhetorical theory in communication to analyze racialized language and to evaluate the cultural and political significance of new racial discourses in the United States. The article examines the dissenting opinion inPlessy v Ferguson (1896)and the congressional hearings on the Tiger Woods Bill (1997), two key instances of public debate over multiracial catego…
Imag(in)ing the post-national television fan
In 2016, Viki.com and Netflix added the web drama Dramaworld to their libraries. The move represents a digital and transnational shift in programming and production. Co-produced by China's Jetavana Entertainment, South Korea's EnterMedia, and the US's Third Culture Content, Dramaworld signals the escalation of post-national television production. The show emerges where the splash of the ‘Korean Wave’ has flowed apart from and against flows of US-…
Containment as Neocolonial Visual Rhetoric
Grounding our evidence in Karl Lagerfeld's Paris-Shanghai: A Fantasy, a filmic homage to Coco Chanel, we theorize a “visual rhetoric of containment,” which limits the subjectivity of the racial Other and consolidates whiteness. The visual rhetoric of containment manifests in four ways: the creation and enactment of “the yellowface gaze,” which affirms whiteness through the eyes of the “native” Other, the affirmation of a post-feminist model of ex…
Extinction, genealogy, and institutionalization
News accounts of the recent discovery of Hawai’i Sign Language tell of the identification of a new language—one nearing extinction—and, ultimately, the happy ending of language preservation. By applying postcolonial and disability studies scholarship to the news coverage, we reframe marginalized languages through an alternative logic. We examine the narratives of extinction, genealogy, and institutionalization that underlie both colonial and able…
Engendering Genre
China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston's book on the history of Chinese-Americans, followed close on the heels of the publication of her much acclaimed autobiography The Woman Warrior. Kingston has said that she first envisioned the two volumes as one book; yet if we view these books as companion works, then it is curious how differently they represent what might be called the Chinese-American experience (Talbot 12). While the first, most obvious divide…
Communities on Display
The unveiling of the new Japanese American National Museum (JANM) marked the arrival of Japanese Americans as a social and economic force in Los Angeles. The new museum is impressive in both its size and $22 million price tag. It is located across the street from its earlier incarnation, a Buddhist temple converted into an exhibition space. The temple was not only the social center of the pre-WWII Little Tokyo; it was also one of the collection c…
East Main Street
The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Book Review| October 01 2006 The Ellis Island Snow Globe The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand. LeiLani Nishime LeiLani Nishime Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 96–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501787 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation LeiLani Nishime; The Ellis Island Snow Globe. Journal of American Ethnic …
Sexual Naturalization
Reviewed by: Sexual Naturalization: Asian American and Miscegenation leilani nishime (bio) Sexual Naturalization: Asian American and Miscegenation. By Susan Koshy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Despite the high rate of Asian American out-marriage, we have been slow to recognize the significance of cross-racial encounters. Susan Koshy's slim first book adds to the small but growing list of recent publications such as Rebecca King's Pu…
The Case for Cablinasian
This article advocates for the interdisciplinary use of critical race theory and critical rhetorical theory in communication to analyze racialized language and to evaluate the cultural and political significance of new racial discourses in the United States. The article examines the dissenting opinion inPlessy v Ferguson (1896)and the congressional hearings on the Tiger Woods Bill (1997), two key instances of public debate over multiracial catego…
Containment as Neocolonial Visual Rhetoric
Grounding our evidence in Karl Lagerfeld's Paris-Shanghai: A Fantasy, a filmic homage to Coco Chanel, we theorize a “visual rhetoric of containment,” which limits the subjectivity of the racial Other and consolidates whiteness. The visual rhetoric of containment manifests in four ways: the creation and enactment of “the yellowface gaze,” which affirms whiteness through the eyes of the “native” Other, the affirmation of a post-feminist model of ex…
Undercover Asian
In this first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, Leilani Nishime traces the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. Nishime'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 and t…
Global Asian American Popular Cultures
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced w…
Extinction, genealogy, and institutionalization
News accounts of the recent discovery of Hawai’i Sign Language tell of the identification of a new language—one nearing extinction—and, ultimately, the happy ending of language preservation. By applying postcolonial and disability studies scholarship to the news coverage, we reframe marginalized languages through an alternative logic. We examine the narratives of extinction, genealogy, and institutionalization that underlie both colonial and able…
Mixed Race Matters
Mixed Race Matters:What Emma Stone and Bruno Mars Can Tell Us about the Future of Asian American Media Leilani Nishime (bio) Mixed-race Asian Americans are the most logical place to start thinking about the future of Asians in the United States while also being the least likely starting point for a conversation about Asian Americans in the media, especially visual media. Of all newlyweds in 2010, Asian Americans had the highest rate of outmarriag…
Reviving Bruce
These two case studies of the work of independent Asian American media producers show how Asian American audiences might construct paratexts for Bruce Lee’s work that address and undermine dominant stereotypes while also enabling a distinct “zone of transaction” between Asian American audiences and Lee’s films. By tracing the circulation and ideological investments of a Bruce Lee t-shirt manufactured by the Asian American ‘zine Giant Robot and th…
Whitewashing Yellow Futures in Ex Machina, Cloud Atlas, and Advantageous
This article examines racial transformation in three recent science films within the context of the entertainment industry practice of whitewashing Asian characters. It argues that the shift from yellowface to whitewashing in mainstream cinema manages anxieties about highly gendered transpacific labor migration under globalization. Cloud Atlas and Ex Machina portray a social logic that treats racialized bodies as prosthetic selves—disposable labo…
Racial Ecologies
Introduction
Imag(in)ing the post-national television fan
In 2016, Viki.com and Netflix added the web drama Dramaworld to their libraries. The move represents a digital and transnational shift in programming and production. Co-produced by China's Jetavana Entertainment, South Korea's EnterMedia, and the US's Third Culture Content, Dramaworld signals the escalation of post-national television production. The show emerges where the splash of the ‘Korean Wave’ has flowed apart from and against flows of US-…
Seeing absence
Finding Asian Americans during the 2020 presidential election requires us to take up the paradoxical task of looking for what is not there. Elections stage our national narratives, resurrecting or revising them to define who we imagine ourselves to be. To be left out of the election narrative is to be neglected in the national imagination. This article contrasts the outsized effect of COVID-19 on Asian American populations with our near absence f…
Creating Community
Leilani Nishime interviews Vanessa Au and Ellison Sheih, the former and current codirectors of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Au and Sheih discuss the mission of the film festival, the process of selecting films, the ideological investments of the festival organizers, and the labor involved in running a festival. Of central importance to the conversation is the relationship between film festivals and the surrounding communities
Critical Approaches to the Climate Crisis
This essay turns to theories developed in critical rhetoric and cultural studies to give us an alternate understanding of what is at stake in the climate crisis and offer tools to respond to the crisis. Scholars from those fields, especially decolonial scholars, help us access alternate scales of both time and geography by shifting our perspective from universal to specific, from dominant to insurgent, and, even from human to more-than-human. Thi…
Familial and Communal Histories as Environmental Care Work
The sharing of our family histories is a way to re-envision care work from a “racial ecologies” and critical environmental lens. We consider family histories as an enactment of the care work that is integral to the task of environmental communication. It is from this grounding that we resist neoliberal notions and practices of exchange. Instead, we contemplate what it means to think of care work beyond material culture and possessiveness. Rather,…
Who is the audience
Sociology (19 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Art (10 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · History (10 obras) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (8 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (7 obras) · Ethnic group (7 obras) · Media studies (7 obras)