Author: alicee

Tokyo in Transit—Alisa Freedman

Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road by Alisa Freedman (Stanford University Press, 2010) Alisa Freedman is an assistant professor of Japanese Literature and Film in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University…

Business Girls & Two-Job Wives—Jane Marcellus

Business Girls & Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes of Employed Women by Jane Marcellus (Hampton Press, October 2010) Jane Marcellus is an associate professor at Middle Tennessee State University and a graduate of the University of Oregon. She was awarded…

“Sin Miedo: Violence, Mobility, and Identity in el Paso del Norte”—René Kladzyk

Condon Hall Room 360 UO campus CSWS and CLLAS grantee master’s thesis presentation: René Kladzyk, Geography Department Together, the cities El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, form the largest international border metropolis in the world. While El Paso consistently…

Book Release: Daniel HoSang

Gerlinger Alumni Lounge 1468 University St. University of Oregon campus Book release event for Daniel HoSang’s new work, Racial Propositions. Refreshments will be served. Daniel HoSang is assistant professor of ethnic studies and political science at the University of Oregon…

Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction—Debra Merskin

Media, Minorities, and Meaning: A Critical Introduction Merskin, D. (2010), New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-1-4331-1140-2 pb. US-$ 49.95 Order online: www.peterlang.com Debra L. Merskin is associate professor of Communication Studies in the School of Journalism & Communication at the…

The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman

The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a929749074~frm=titlelink a paper by Debra L. Merskin, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon Online publication date: 19 November 2010, Howard Journal of Communications The Center for the Study…