... 2 (1998) 89 Jurassic Japanese and Silicon Samurai: Rising Sun, Tech-noir Orientalism, and the... more ... 2 (1998) 89 Jurassic Japanese and Silicon Samurai: Rising Sun, Tech-noir Orientalism, and the Japanese Other in American Popular Culture ... is the lack of centralized agency, the insinuating anonymity of both its authority and its authorship, combined with the invisible hand of ...
Representations of blacks in Japan continue to be problematic even when the media itself, a prime... more Representations of blacks in Japan continue to be problematic even when the media itself, a prime purveyor of racial misrepresentations, attempts to address the issue. This has become evident in its coverage of global Black Lives Matter protests for racial justice in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by police in the United States. While protests have occurred in a number of Japanese cities, mainstream coverage has ignored them and remained focused on those demonstrations that have taken place abroad. While these demonstrations have prompted a reexamination of anti-black racism in the United States and Europe, the Japanese media has largely avoided introspective discussion of its domestic manifestations, despite its prevalence on the internet, social media, and television, including corporate mainstream news broadcasts that have feebly attempted to examine the issue.
Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies , 2017
This paper explores the putative lack of black engagement with science fiction (SF) as readers an... more This paper explores the putative lack of black engagement with science fiction (SF) as readers and writers. It argues that although blacks have been writing and reading science fiction since the genre’s inception, this has generally not been recognized due in part to perdurable stereotypes of blacks as lacking sufficient imaginative power to enjoy SF as readers or to produce it as writers, as well as to stereotypes from both within and outside of the genre that characterize it as an intellectually challenging but puerile escapism unsuited to blacks who must preoccupy themselves with the daily realities of real-world oppression. Although black readers and writers of SF remain numerically small, I argue that black engagement with the genre has been marked not by absence but by invisibility, that is, by a failure of both those within and outside of it to perceive its presence.
... 2 (1998) 89 Jurassic Japanese and Silicon Samurai: Rising Sun, Tech-noir Orientalism, and the... more ... 2 (1998) 89 Jurassic Japanese and Silicon Samurai: Rising Sun, Tech-noir Orientalism, and the Japanese Other in American Popular Culture ... is the lack of centralized agency, the insinuating anonymity of both its authority and its authorship, combined with the invisible hand of ...
Representations of blacks in Japan continue to be problematic even when the media itself, a prime... more Representations of blacks in Japan continue to be problematic even when the media itself, a prime purveyor of racial misrepresentations, attempts to address the issue. This has become evident in its coverage of global Black Lives Matter protests for racial justice in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by police in the United States. While protests have occurred in a number of Japanese cities, mainstream coverage has ignored them and remained focused on those demonstrations that have taken place abroad. While these demonstrations have prompted a reexamination of anti-black racism in the United States and Europe, the Japanese media has largely avoided introspective discussion of its domestic manifestations, despite its prevalence on the internet, social media, and television, including corporate mainstream news broadcasts that have feebly attempted to examine the issue.
Bulletin of the Faculty of Regional Studies , 2017
This paper explores the putative lack of black engagement with science fiction (SF) as readers an... more This paper explores the putative lack of black engagement with science fiction (SF) as readers and writers. It argues that although blacks have been writing and reading science fiction since the genre’s inception, this has generally not been recognized due in part to perdurable stereotypes of blacks as lacking sufficient imaginative power to enjoy SF as readers or to produce it as writers, as well as to stereotypes from both within and outside of the genre that characterize it as an intellectually challenging but puerile escapism unsuited to blacks who must preoccupy themselves with the daily realities of real-world oppression. Although black readers and writers of SF remain numerically small, I argue that black engagement with the genre has been marked not by absence but by invisibility, that is, by a failure of both those within and outside of it to perceive its presence.
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