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Working for a Living: The Depiction of Asian American Women in Film & Theater

Guest: Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Professor and Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. Her work focuses on race and sexuality in global popular culture. In 2007 she published the book The Hypersexuality of Race and last year she released her book The Proximity of Other Skins.

Read entire article at Letters and Politics