Introduction: Mixed Race in Hollywood Film and Media Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Mixed Race in Hollywood Film and Media Culture 1
4. Part I. Miscegenation: Mixed Race and the Imagined Nation
5. 1. Classical Hollywood and the Filmic Writing of Interracial History, 1931–1939 23
6. 2. Mixed Race Frontiers: Border Westerns and the Limits of “America” 45
7. 3.Mixedfolks.com: “Ethnic Ambiguity,” Celebrity Outing, and the Internet 64
8. Part II: Identity, Taboo, and “Spice”: Screening Mixed Race Romance and Families
9. 4. Catching Up with History: Night of the Quarter Moon, the Rhinelander Case, and Interracial Marriage in 1959 87
10. 5. A Window into a Life Uncloseted: “Spice Boy” Imaginings in New Queer Cinema 113
11. 6. The Biracial Subject as Passive Receptacle for Japanese American Memory in Come See the Paradise 136
12. Part III: Genre, Mixed Race, and Evolving Racial Identities
13. 7. Race Mixing and the Fantastic: Lineages of Identity and Genre in Contemporary Hollywood 157
14. 8. Virtual Race: The Racially Ambiguous Action Hero in The Matrix and Pitch Black 182
15. 9. From Blaxploitation to Mixploitation: Male Leads and Changing Mixed Race Identities 203
16. Part IV: Generation Mix? Shifting Meanings of Mixed Race Figures
17. 10. Detecting Difference in Devil in a Blue Dress: The Mulatta Figure, Noir, and the Cinematic Reification of Race 223
18. 11. Mixed Race in Latinowood: Latino Stardom and Ethnic Ambiguity in the Era of Dark Angels 248
19. 12. Mixed Race on the Disney Channel: From Johnny Tsunami through Lizzie McGuire and Ending with The Cheetah Girls 269
20. 13. The Matrix Trilogy, Keanu Reeves, and Multiraciality at the End of Time 290
21. Contributors 313
22. Index 317