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Race Matters Series
S**t Girls Say Identity Politics and Social Media
MCC Lounge
The S**t Girls Say YouTube meme has become a viral success. (Or a viral problem?) Join us in an interactive discussion on new media and popular culture. Are S**t ___ Say sketches produced by, or actively producing our cultural perceptions? Are these videos just light-hearted, or are they damaging political and social platforms for lived racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality inequalities? Panelists include Sara Hinojos, Chicana/Chicano Studies; Professor Mireille Miller-Young, Feminist Studies; Diana Pozo, Film Studies; and Carly Thomsen, Feminist Studies.
Cup of Culture
AOKI
MCC Theater
AOKI chronicles the life of Richard Aoki, a third-generation Japanese American who became one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party, and explores previously unknown facts about the formation of the party. Discussion with Douglas H. Daniels, Professor Emeritus, Black Studies and Diane Fujino, Professor and Chair, Asian American Studies. Mike Cheng and Ben Wang, 94 min., English, 2009, USA. Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department.
Girl In A Coma in Concert
MCC Theater
The San Antonio trio has left a permanent tattoo on the hearts of thousands with their piercing songs and nuclear performances. A mix of punk, tejano, rockabilly, classic rock and roll, rancheras, indie rock, and ballads, their sound can only be described as Girl In A Coma. Tickets $5 UCSB students and children under 12/$15 general. Contact the A.S Ticket Office at 805-893-2064. Limited seating.
Straitjacket Sexualities Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies Celine Parreñas Shimizu
MCC Theater
Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity, a straitjacketing according to author Celine Parreñas Shimizu, aggravates Asian American male sexual problems both on and off screen.
