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... Chapter 4 traces the liberal reconstitution of racial security that accompanied capitalist expansion. Liberalism provided capitalism with a mode of political regulation that presented security for a society composed of possessive individuals as its highest value. Race now evolved into a real...

... as the center of a taken-for-granted nationalism, reality TV has put minority characters in the spotlight. The chapter examines how celebrity reality television has exploded postsocialist national racial regimes. In particular, it has disclosed the unspoken role assigned to the Roma to mark the whiteness...

... Racial formation emerged in opposition to the dominance of the ethnic model in U.S. sociology. For post-1968 ethnic studies, race is the defining subject matter of the field and racial formation is the theory that best explains race. The theory holds that race, while a social construction...

... performances of many other minoritized workers, Asian superbloggers’ job performances have an added racial and gendered dimension of impression management to combat stereotypes. How fashion blogger poses both establish Asian superbloggers’ valuable role in the digital fashion media economy and they help them...

... serves to distinguish Asian superbloggers from earlier Asian fashion workers characterized by physical sweated labor, while simultaneously deskilling the bloggers’ work in ways that mirror the devaluation of garment manufacturing work. By attending to the racial history and politics of digital fashion...