[Sci-tech-public] Cool Japan: Authenticating Alterity: Stereotypes of the Black Other in Japan and the United States

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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>>Authenticating Alterity:
>>Stereotypes of the Black Other in Japan and the United States
>>John G. Russell (Gifu University, Japan)
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>>Wednesday, September 20
>>4 - 6 pm
>>4-237, MIT
>>Free and open to the public
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>>(Iona Brown, Thug Life Samurai)   (Santa Inoue, Tokyo Tribe)
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>>Anthropology professor John G. Russell of Gifu University (Japan) 
>>will discuss his current book project which explores the ways 
>>iconographies of "blackness" in popular culture in Japan and the US 
>>exert a powerful influence on national identity and cross-cultural 
>>understandings. He argues that what is popularly thought of as 
>>"black culture" in Japan and the US tends to reify stereotypes 
>>while obscuring Asian-Black encounters. His multimedia presentation 
>>will be followed by a question-and-answer session.
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>>This year's theme for the Cool Japan research project is "Race, 
>>Sex, and Nation." The group receives support from the MIT Japan 
>>Program, MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Harvard's 
>>Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies.
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>>For more info, please contact Professor Ian Condry (FL&L) 
>><mailto:condry at mit.edu>condry at mit.edu or Christine Phillips (FL&L) 
>><mailto:cphill at mit.edu>cphill at mit.edu or 617-253-4771.
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>>Christine Phillips
>>Administrative Assistant
>>Foreign Languages and LIteratures
>>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>>14N-305
>>Cambridge, MA 02139
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>>Tel:  617-253-4771
>>Fax: 617-258-6189
>><mailto:cphill at mit.edu>cphill at mit.edu
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>Debbie Meinbresse
>STS Program, MIT
>617-452-2390
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>Christine Phillips
>Administrative Assistant
>Foreign Languages and LIteratures
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>14N-305
>Cambridge, MA 02139
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>Tel:  617-253-4771
>Fax: 617-258-6189
><mailto:cphill at mit.edu>cphill at mit.edu
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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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