7. The Problematics of Postracial Colorblindness: Exploring Cristina Yang’s Asianness in Grey’s Anatomy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: Riding Shondaland’s Rollercoasters: Critical Cultural Television Studies in the 21^st Century 1
4. Part I: Quality television’s cultural dominance: the auteur comes to television studies
5. 1. Trauma, Spin, and Murder: The Carnival Spectacle in Shondaland 23
6. 2. Wounded Detachments, Differential Alliances: Beyond Identity and Telos in Shondaland’s Heterotopia 42
7. 3. Abortion in Shondaland: Daring Departures from Oppressive Industry Conventions 60
8. 4. Soundtracking Shondaland: Televisual Identity Mapped through Music 79
9. Part II: Shondaland’s paradoxical identity politics and the fantastical “post”
10. 5. Race (Lost and Found) in Shondaland: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Prime-Time Network Television 101
11. 6. Emb(Race)ing Visibility: Callie Torres’s (Im)Perfect Operation of Bisexuality on Grey’s Anatomy 120
12. 7. The Problematics of Postracial Colorblindness: Exploring Cristina Yang’s Asianness in Grey’s Anatomy 138
13. 8. Interracial Intimacies: From Shondaland to the Postracial Promised Land 156
14. Part III: Consumption, ethics, and morality: shondaland fandom as cultural meaning making
15. 9. #BlackLivesMatter on Scandal: Analyzing Divergent Fan Reactions to “The Lawn Chair” Episode 179
16. 10. Blurring Production Boundaries with Fan Empowerment: Scandal as Social Television 197
17. 11. Media Criticism and Morality Policing on Twitter: Fan Responses to How to Get Away with Murder 214
18. 12. Dying for the Next Episode: Living and Working within Shondaland’s Medical Universe 235
19. Notes on Contributors 253
20. Index 259