Blasian Invasion: Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex

by Myra S Washington and Myra S. Washington

Book Overview

Myra S. Washington probes the social construction of race through the mixed-race identity of Blasians, people of Black and Asian ancestry. She looks at the construction of the identifier Blasian and how this term went from being undefined to forming a significant role in popular media. Today Blasian has emerged as not just an identity Black/Asian mixed-race people can claim, but also a popular brand within the industry and a signifier in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149682346X
• ISBN13: 9781496823465
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"