Author Description

About the Author Jun Xing is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and director of the Difference, Power and Discrimination Program at Oregon State University, and author of "Asian America Through the Lens: History, Representations, and Identity" and "Baptized in the Fire of Revolution: The American Social Gospel and the YMCA in China, 1919–1937." Lane Ryo Hirabayashi is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of numerous titles, including "The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp" and "Teaching Asian America: Diversity & the Problem of Community." Product Description "Reversing the Lens" brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies and film studies to promote film as a powerful classroom tool that can be used to foster cross-cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as "Skin Deep," "Slaying the Dragon," and "Mississippi Masala," contributors demonstrate why and how visual media help delineate various forms of critical visual thinking and examine how racialization is either sedimented or contested in the popular imagination. Not limited to classroom use, "Reversing the Lens" is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilized to expose race as a social construction that-in dialogue with other potential forms of difference-is subject to political contestation.