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Whitewashing the Movies

Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture

by David C Oh ...

Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost in the Shell and Aloha. The purpose of this book is to apply the concept of “whitewashing” in stories that privilege White identities ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost in the Shell and Aloha. The purpose of this book is to apply the concept of “whitewashing” in stories that privilege White identities
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Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media

Diasporic Identifications

by David C. Oh ...

Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications looks at the relationship between second-generation Korean Americans and Korean popular culture. Specifically looking at Korean films, celebrities, and popular media, David C. Oh combines intrapersonal processes of identification with social identities to understand how these individuals use Korean popular ... Read more

$120.99 CAD

Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications looks at the relationship between second-generation Korean Americans and Korean popular culture. Specifically looking at Korean films, celebrities, and popular media, David C. Oh combines intrapersonal processes of identification with social identities to understand how these individuals use Korean popular
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Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia

Race and Reception

Edited by David C. Oh, Benjamin Min Han ...

Showcases the dynamism of cross-cultural engagement with Korean mediaKorean media has exploded in popularity across the globe in the past decade: BTS and other K-pop groups have packed stadiums, Parasite garnered record-breaking critical success, The Masked Singer and Single’s Inferno became viral TV hits, and multiday KCON fan events have highlighted not only media but Korean food, cosmetics, and ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

Showcases the dynamism of cross-cultural engagement with Korean mediaKorean media has exploded in popularity across the globe in the past decade: BTS and other K-pop groups have packed stadiums, Parasite garnered record-breaking critical success, The Masked Singer and Single’s Inferno became viral TV hits, and multiday KCON fan events have highlighted not only media but Korean food, cosmetics, and
... Read more
Korean Diaspora across the World

Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality

by Eun-Jeong Han, Min Wha Han, Irina Balitskaya, Jae Hyung Park, Sara Docan-Morgan, Wonjung Min, Jinhye Lee, Soo-Hye Han, David C. Oh0, EunKyung Lee1, Sohyun Choi2, Benjamin M. Han3, JongHwa Lee5, Claire Shinhea Lee6, Dr. Jaehyeon Jeong7 ...

Series series Korean Communities across the World
This edited volume brings together a wide-ranging account of the Korean diaspora, focusing on how “homeland” is understood, invoked, and performed in everyday life and public culture.Spanning sites from Sakhalin and Japan to Chile, Kazakhstan, the United States, and Latin America, the contributors show how diasporic Koreans express belonging through family narratives, community life, and media, ... Read more

$49.99 CAD

This edited volume brings together a wide-ranging account of the Korean diaspora, focusing on how “homeland” is understood, invoked, and performed in everyday life and public culture.Spanning sites from Sakhalin and Japan to Chile, Kazakhstan, the United States, and Latin America, the contributors show how diasporic Koreans express belonging through family narratives, community life, and media,
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Mediating the South Korean Other

Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State

Edited by David C. Oh ...

Series series Perspectives On Contemporary Korea
Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily reduced to racism or ethnocentrism. Indeed the Korean word, injongchabyeol, often translated as racism ... Read more

$38.49 CAD

Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily reduced to racism or ethnocentrism. Indeed the Korean word, injongchabyeol, often translated as racism
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You Are Here: Connecting Flights

by Ellen Oh ...

Narrated by David Lee Huynh, Dana Wing Lau, Ramon de Ocampo, Jeanne Syquia ...

Unabridged

5 hours 40 min

A powerful and engaging exploration of contemporary Asian American identity through interwoven stories set in a teeming Chicago airport, written by award-winning and bestselling East and Southeast Asian American authors including Linda Sue Park, Grace Lin, Erin Entrada Kelly, Traci Chee, and Ellen Oh. Flying Lessons meets Black Boy Joy.“The individual narratives are consistently engaging and ... Read more

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A powerful and engaging exploration of contemporary Asian American identity through interwoven stories set in a teeming Chicago airport, written by award-winning and bestselling East and Southeast Asian American authors including Linda Sue Park, Grace Lin, Erin Entrada Kelly, Traci Chee, and Ellen Oh. Flying Lessons meets Black Boy Joy.“The individual narratives are consistently engaging and
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Navigating White News

Asian American Journalists at Work

by Seong Jae Min, David C Oh, PhD ...

NCA Asian Pacific American Caucus & Communication Studies Division Outstanding Book AwardCombining critical race studies with cultural production studies, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the only academic book to examine the ways that racial identification and activation matters in their understanding of news. This adds to the existing literature on race and the ... Read more

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NCA Asian Pacific American Caucus & Communication Studies Division Outstanding Book AwardCombining critical race studies with cultural production studies, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the only academic book to examine the ways that racial identification and activation matters in their understanding of news. This adds to the existing literature on race and the
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The Lost Year

A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist)

by Katherine Marsh ...

Narrated by Katherine Marsh, Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, Jesse Vilinsky ...

Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

"Narrators Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, and Jesse Vilinsky combine talents in this compelling historical fiction, which takes place during the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s."- AudioFile**Author's note read by the author.From the author of *Nowhere Boy—*called “a resistance novel for our times” by The New York Times—comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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"Narrators Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, and Jesse Vilinsky combine talents in this compelling historical fiction, which takes place during the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s."- AudioFile**Author's note read by the author.From the author of *Nowhere Boy—*called “a resistance novel for our times” by The New York Times—comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family
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How to Heal a Gryphon

by Meg Cannistra ...

Narrated by Lillie Ricciardi ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Giada the Healer Novel
Unabridged

6 hours 41 min

“A funny, fantastical mystery. . . Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan.” —Laura Ruby, Two-Time National Book Award Finalist and author of the YORK Trilogy“I could live with these characters and in this world for a good long while. Bring on the sequel!" —New York Times bestselling author Julie MurphyTo save her family, she’ll have to make a dangerous bargain and tip the scales of balance.With her ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

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“A funny, fantastical mystery. . . Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan.” —Laura Ruby, Two-Time National Book Award Finalist and author of the YORK Trilogy“I could live with these characters and in this world for a good long while. Bring on the sequel!" —New York Times bestselling author Julie MurphyTo save her family, she’ll have to make a dangerous bargain and tip the scales of balance.With her
... Read more

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Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston

by Esme Symes-Smith ...

Narrated by Esme Symes-Smith, Dani Martineck ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Sir Callie
Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

**In a magical medieval world filled with dragons, shape-shifters, and witches, a twelve-year-old nonbinary hopeful knight battles for the heart of their kingdom. This USA Today bestselling series explores identity and gender amid sword fights and magic, and proves anyone can be a hero.“These heroes come in all shapes and skills—I cheered for them throughout their exciting journey.” —#1 New York ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

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**In a magical medieval world filled with dragons, shape-shifters, and witches, a twelve-year-old nonbinary hopeful knight battles for the heart of their kingdom. This USA Today bestselling series explores identity and gender amid sword fights and magic, and proves anyone can be a hero.“These heroes come in all shapes and skills—I cheered for them throughout their exciting journey.” —#1 New York
... Read more

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The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest (Newbery Honor Award Winner)

by Aubrey Hartman ...

Narrated by Marisa Calin ...

Unabridged

6 hours 28 min

A Newbery Honor Award Book!A fox and a badger begrudgingly team up to change their destinies in this endearing middle grade novel Featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout, this critically acclaimed novel brings Deadwood Forest to life through both words and art. Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo and Katherine Applegate.? “Heartbreaking, marvelously funny, and generously redemptive.” ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

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A Newbery Honor Award Book!A fox and a badger begrudgingly team up to change their destinies in this endearing middle grade novel Featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout, this critically acclaimed novel brings Deadwood Forest to life through both words and art. Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo and Katherine Applegate.? “Heartbreaking, marvelously funny, and generously redemptive.”
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Is Everyone Really Equal?

An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...

Series series Multicultural Education Series
This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

$47.99 CAD

This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and
... Read more

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