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“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....
Heidi Kim
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.
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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, chose to make an American historical film. McQueen has cited, among his reasons for making this film, his desire to ...
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