Heidi Kim is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Follow her on Twitter at @HeidiKKim.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

“Flower Drum Song,” Whitewashing, and Operation Wetback: A Message from 1961
Heidi Kim looks back on "Flower Drum Song" and Hollywood's brief foray in casting Asian American actors to play Asian American characters....

How Twelve Years a Slave was made, 150 years before "12 Years a Slave"
WHILE ADULATIONS currently ring out for the film 12 Years a Slave, some critics have questioned why British director, Steve McQueen, ...
